What is the meaning of Allay?

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.

To subside, abate, become peaceful.

To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.

Alleviation; abatement; check.

An alloy.

harvest or digging up of potatoes or tubers

to dig, dig up, dig out, excavate; to harvest tubers

Source: wiktionary.org