waylaid

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌweɪˈleɪd/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

waylaid

  1. 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.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:
      My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion
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