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  • noun Alternative form of lay-in.

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Examples

  • "Three dollars a week, an 'four dollars a week, an' a young boy cookin 'for himself on an oil-burner an' layin 'up money, workin' all day an 'studyin' all night, just workin 'an' never playin ', never havin' a good time, an 'never learnin' how to have a good time - of course his thirty thousand came along too late."

    Chapter 8 2010

  • Ye never heard hoo he laid it into them, steekin 'his nivs an' layin 'aboot him wi' his airms.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "I'm jes 'layin' hold of God's promises," she said with a smile.

    Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne

  • Anybody'd think you was the king – layin 'down the law en' layin 'down the law en' layin 'down – Where's Lulie?

    Miss Lulu Bett 1921

  • She hain't never left nothin 'layin' around her room that a body could git any idee about her from.

    Youth Challenges Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

  • Just plumb wore out, an 'layin' asleep on the bank.

    Prairie Flowers 1921

  • "So he air aready been settin 'on yer head an' layin 'on yer heart, mister," she greeted him, "the leetle man like this, huh, ain't he?"

    The Secret of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

  • "Three dollars a week, an 'four dollars a week, an' a young boy cookin 'for himself on an oil-burner an' layin 'up money, workin' all day an 'studyin' all night, just workin 'an' never playin ', never havin' a good time, an 'never learnin' how to have a good time - of course his thirty thousand came along too late."

    Chapter 8 1908

  • "I'm Sam'l Tobin, captain an 'owner of the' Eb an 'Flo,' layin 'jist out yonder."

    Jess of the Rebel Trail 1910

  • "Simpson 'lows he's jes' layin 'low hisself, but ye can't tell."

    That Printer of Udell's Harold Bell Wright 1908

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