What is "waylay"

Usage examples of "waylay".

He was thinking about how enjoyable it might turn out to bechasing down the pieces, traveling together to acquire themwhen Percy waylaid him in the hallway.

Tarzan could not tell whether the Arabs, satisfied with their losses, had given up the fight, or were waiting farther along the road to waylay them as they proceeded on toward Bou Saada.

The Santa Anna, which he had waylaid, had proved to be a veritable treasure ship, laden with such minted coins as doubloons, golden moidores, pieces of eight, and cross money, to say nothing of plate, silks, lace, and other rare fabrics that would fetch good money at Port Royal, where unscrupulous traders were making fortunes.

Mering waylaid me on my way to the fishpond and sent me to put up placards in the village, and it was nearly noon by the time I got back.

Norm Ballard, a second-rate Ed Gein who liked to waylay unwary travelers who happened by his out-of-the-way Nebraska farm.

Hugh and Hugo spending all of their days waylaying travelers on the main road and bringing them back to Gyer as prisoners.

Road at Suzuka Pass, though, and no blame would fall on Hino if the mysterious nun and her companion were waylaid there.

You could waylay Sargan as he leaves the temple, or hire Kebar thugs to do it.

Like all musical directors he had in his leisure moments composed the complete score of a musical play and spent much of his time waylaying librettists on the Rialto and trying to lure them to his apartment to listen to it, with a view to business.

I was waylaid by an attractive young nymphet who seemed rather taken by, as she so eloquently put it, my rad looks.

As he had come home from the futile public meeting, galloping through the streets and out upon the Seigneury road in the dusk, his horse had shied upon a bridge, where mischievous lads waylaid travellers with ghostly heads made of lighted candles in hollowed pumpkins, and horse and man had been plunged into the stream beneath.

Was waylaid by my tipstaff nine years since, So thou this day shalt feel his fendless tap, And join thy sire!

When he himself had been captured, the Tirans had waylaid them in the jungle after they left the plane.

A common bravo of the canals is waylaid, among your despised graves, by the proudest Signor of Calabria!

Signor Mantissa waylaid a waitress, who set down four liters of beer on the table.