different between embar vs embay

English

Etymology

From Middle French embarrer, from barre (“bar”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?b??/

Verb

embar (third-person singular simple present embars, present participle embarring, simple past and past participle embarred)

1. (archaic, transitive) To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To prohibit, debar (someone from doing something).

Anagrams

• Amber, Brame, Bream, amber, bemar, brame, bream

English

Etymology 1

From em- +? bay (“bathe”).

Verb

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III.11:

     Sweete Love, that doth his golden wings embay / In blessed Nectar and pure Pleasures well […].

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxii:

     Their swords both points and edges sharp embay / In purple blood whereso they hit or light.

Etymology 2

From em- +? bay.

Alternative forms

• imbay

Verb

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

1. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.

References

• embay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Mabey, abyme, beamy, maybe