133. Turn to bay. Like stand at bay, etc., a term used when the stag, driven to extremity, turns round and faces his pursuers. Cf. Shakespeare, 1. Hen. VI. iv. 2. 52, where it is used figuratively (as in vi. 525 below): "Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel, And make the cowards stand aloof at bay;" and T. of S. v. 2. 56: "'T is thought your deer does hold you at a bay," etc.
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