Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lie in wait for; ambush.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To lie in wait for; to ambush.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To lay aside.
- verb transitive To
lie in wait for;ambush .
Etymologies
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From for- + lay, on analogy with waylay.
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