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Embaled vs Embayed - What's the difference?

embaled | embayed |

As verbs the difference between embaled and embayed

is that embaled is (embale) while embayed is (embay).

As an adjective embayed is

enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.

embaled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (embale)

    • embale

    English

    Verb

    (embal)
  • (obsolete) To make up into a bale or pack.
    • (Johnson)
  • (obsolete) To bind up; to enclose.
  • * Spenser
    • Legs embaled in golden buskins.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    embayed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (embay)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.
  • * 1661 , John Donne, "Elegie XVIII":
    • Yet ere thou be where thou would'st be embay'd , / Thou shalt upon another Forest set [...].
  • Of water: formed into a bay or bays.