eys

Noun (1)

ey (plural eyren)

1. (otherwise obsolete) An egg.
   • Take brothe of capons withoute herbes, and breke eyren, and cast into the pot, and make a crudde therof, and colour hit with saffron, and then presse oute the brothe and kerve it on leches; and then take swete creme of almondes, or of cowe mylk, and boyle hit; […]1787, originally 1381, Liber quotidianus contrarotulatoris garderobae

Noun (2)

ey (plural eys)

1. (UK) A small island formed by the buildup of silt or gravel at the confluence of two rivers or streams.
   • Now it will be seen that each of the three small streamlets named forms, at its junction with the larger river into which it flows, an ey, or island, of this latter kind — Crip's-ey, Dom's-ey, and Pin's-ey, respectively; and I suggest that, from these three eys, each of the three streams indicated...1927, Essex Naturalist, page 280
2. A place that has a name ending in "-ey" because it is or was located at such an island.
   • Among the many eys, eyots, or islands, clustering about Oxford, at or near the confluence of the Isis and Cherwell, viz., Binsey, Botley, Hinksey, Iffley, Osney, Oxey, Pixey, &c., there are two, vis., Osney and Oxey, which manifestly enshrine this rivername.1888 January 28, Walter de Gray Birch, “WASA, ISIS, OCK”, in Academy and Literature, volume 33, number 821, page 63

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