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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lay-by
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assuming he quit the lay-by about twelve-twenty.
▪ Dozens of drivers had stopped in the lay-by and thousands driven past.
▪ Dozens of officers descended when one convoy stopped in a lay-by.
▪ George pulled into a lay-by and gingerly fingered through the wallet with renewed twinges of horror.
▪ I'd seen his lorry in the lay-by.
▪ It was bigger than the lay-by of yesterday, shaded by leafy beech trees that flanked the road on both sides.
▪ Set into the trees across from the lay-by was the Mühltalperle coffee house.
▪ The lay-by was three miles away.
Wiktionary
lay-by

n. 1 (context UK English) A paved area at the side of a highway designated for drivers to stop in, for emergency parking, or where vehicles can wait, with larger lay-bys possibly having facilities like food vendors or public telephones. 2 (context UK English) A railroad siding; a second, short railroad track just to the side of a railroad track, connected with the main track by a switch and used for unloading, bypassing, etc. 3 (context nautical English) A widened section of a narrow river or canal, formed to one side so as to leave the channel free, for mooring of vessels, where vessels can lay over or allow others to pass. 4 (context Australia New Zealand South Africa English) A method of retail purchase in which the selected goods are set aside and the customer pays for them in instalments, receiving them when fully paid; layaway.

WordNet
lay-by

n. designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily; "in England they call a rest area a lay-by" [syn: layby, pull-off, rest area, rest stop]

Usage examples of "lay-by".

A landfill site, a laundrette in some charmless town, a lay-by off a dual carriageway, a wood at night.

David Hurst, a cyclist who had stopped to rest in the lay-by on the northbound section of the road near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, raised the alarm, triggering a murder probe which remains unsolved to this day.

At last, in gathering dusk, and with Jackson at the wheel, the whole gang bounced down Glen Fionart in the van to where Angus had left Micawber in a lay-by off the main road.

About a hundred miles northwest of where the little map unrolling on the dash screen said the sprawl of light called Chago was, I pulled off on a lay-by marked with big arrows of luminous rose paint.

Hyde steered the car reluctantly towards the lay-by and its small, glassed-in bus shelter.

Reaching his objective - a stalled electric rail car, rimed white over its black and gold where it stood abandoned in a lay-by - the mechanic snapped open the battery cover and shone his torch inside, examining the bank of six large batteries.