quay

6 definitions found

quay - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quay \Quay\, v. t.
     To furnish with quays.
     [1913 Webster]

  Quay \Quay\, n. [F. quai. See Key quay.]
     A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side
     of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience
     in loading and unloading vessels. [Written also key.]
     [1913 Webster]

quay - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  quay
      n 1: wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline

quay - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Quay, NM
    Zip code(s): 88433
  Quay, OK (town, FIPS 61450)
    Location: 36.16007 N, 96.70967 W
    Population (1990): 59 (22 housing units)
    Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

quay - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  QUAY, estates. A wharf at which to load or land goods, sometimes spelled 
  key. 
       2. In its enlarged sense the word quay, means the whole space between 
  the first row of houses of a city, and the sea or river 5 L. R. 152, 215. So 
  much of the quay as is requisite for the public use of loading and unloading 
  vessels, is public property, and cannot be appropriated to private use, but 
  the rest may be, private property. Id. 201. 
  
  

quay - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "quay":
     anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, bulkhead,
     dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, embankment, groin, harbor,
     harborage, haven, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place,
     landing stage, levee, marina, mole, moorings, pier, port,
     protected anchorage, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall,
     shipyard, slip, wharf