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bay,
an anatomic depression or recess, usually containing fluid, such as the lacrimal bay of the eye.

bay,
n Latin name:
Laurus nobilis; parts used: berries, leaves, oil; uses: antidiabetic, antiulcerogenic, rubefacient, rheumatism, colic, antispasmodic, cirrhosis; oil: antibacterial, antifungal; precautions: pregnancy, lactation, children, asthma, insulin, antidiabetic medications. Also called
bay laurel, bay leaf, bay tree, laurel, sweet bay, or
Roman laurel.

bay
1. a tan or red-brown coat color of horses. Light bay is light tan; mealy bay is a redder but lighter, rust color; blood bay is a much deeper, redder color; golden bay has a tinge of yellow in a deep red-brown color.
2. prolonged bark or howl of a hunting hound.


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The project, including new bay platforms at Coventry and Bedworth stations and up to four multiplecarriage trains an hour, is thought crucial to the huge Friargate office development plan around Coventry station, which would 15,000 new jobs.
Is there still time to learn valuable lessons from the university city of Cambridge, whose station operates at near-capacity for most of the day, involving a single long platform, similar to Chester's Platform 3, with bay platforms to accommodate trains from the North and South, starting from London's King's Cross and Liverpool Street stations?
In my travels, I had noticed that every main line station still had little trains sitting in bay platforms waiting to take passengers on to remote places deep in the hinterland.
 
 
 
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