Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To contrive in advance.
- See
forlay .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To lay down beforehand.
- transitive verb obsolete To waylay. See
Forlay .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past of
forelie . - verb To lay down beforehand
- verb To waylay
- verb To plan, contrive in advance
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
fore- + lay
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Examples
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Again Lavis heard him: "You thought to forelay me, eh -- and breed panic above?
Sonnie-Boy's People 1912
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You folks had better forelay to come aboard by then. "
The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904
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Foreplay comes before forelay?
September 13, 2021