Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic intransitive English) To make an intermediary stop somewhere.
WordNet
v. interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil" [syn: stop over]
place on top of; "can you superimpose the two images?" [syn: superimpose, superpose]
Usage examples of "lay over".
He could not get around the government ruling because this was Earth and the zone of evil lay over everything.
He pulled off a knitted cap so that the wind lay over his tight braids of faded hair, his somewhat large nose pointed into that breeze.
The slabs used to lay over the bedframe were like those on the roof.
His arm lay over my thick waist and he rested his palm on my breast, unmoving, a warmth, comforting.
This amounted to a little magical clearing of the vicinity and the summoning of a few planks to lay over holes.
Tan Hadron turned to port so fast that the Dusar lay over on her side, and we on deck had to hang to anything we could get hold of to keep from going overboard.