faying

Verb (1)

fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)

1. (obsolete) To fit, to add.
2. (transitive) To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.
   • I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.Model Shipbuilders, 2010

   Synonyms:

   affix

3. (intransitive) Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
4. (obsolete) To fadge.

Verb (2)

fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)

1. (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.

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