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pay2

Pronunciation: /peɪ/

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Definition of pay

verb (past and past participle payed)

[with object] Nautical

seal (the deck or seams of a wooden ship) with pitch or tar to prevent leakage: an open groove between the planks had to be payed by running in hot pitch from a special ladle