Separate the strands of, as rope

Usage examples of unlay.

I pluck the blossoms in my hunger for the fruit, that I eat the chick of the yet unlaid egg, O Feshnavat.

Seagrave unlaid some thick rope, that Ready might make smaller and more useful rope with the yarns.

And so I turned and I moved into this space of unlaid stone and churning cement mixers and he was sitting beneath a web of steel beams and a half-risen wall and I went to him and his eyes widened and he flinched, expecting a blow, but I took his face in my hands and kissed him on the mouth, a kiss full of wrath.

Next came partridge and capon served with dumplings of ground meat shaped and gilded so as to resemble eggs, then a pie of unlaid eggs and cheese and quail glazed with red honey and garlic.

The rooms could have been empty, it was impossible to tell, and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables, just chatting.

Mael turned away and began struggling once again to find the place where the great cable unlaid, sending its tarnished strands out into the universe, flying up beyond sight into the dark sky.

She had expected unlaid ghosts, the lingering presence of that arrogant, belligerent creature who had been her father, an outraged fury that would reach from beyond its burial.

Topsy towards the centre of town, puffing up the unlaid High Street dust with each step.

Terrorists will always be depicted as proper Charlies: bumbling incompetents, jargon-spouting nitwits, psychotic illiterates, scruffy unlaid losers barely competent to light the fuse and retire in correct sequence.

The officer who had brought Father Vincent to this conference, also stood musing after them with unlaid suspicion.