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English
Pronunciation
Verb
waylaid
- simple past and past participle of waylay
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage
alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob
those men that we have already 'waylaid – yourself and I
will not be there. And when they have the booty, if you
and I do not rob them – cut this head off from my
shoulders.