Definitions for waylays

waylays way·lay

Spelling: [wey-ley, wey-ley]
IPA: /ˈweɪˌleɪ, weɪˈleɪ/

Waylays is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in waylays (aalswyy).

Definitions for waylays

verb (used with object)

  1. to intercept or attack from ambush, as in order to rob, seize, or slay.
  2. to await and accost unexpectedly:

Origin of waylays

1505-15; way1 + lay1, after Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wegelagen to lie in wait, derivative of wegelage a lying in w

Examples for waylays

But Rose did not dare, and then there was Martin ready to waylay her.

They began to waylay and butcher white men and women and children.

If you can intercept her before she gets there, or waylay her when she leaves, why there you are.

I warn you that I shall lay all manner of traps, waylay your messengers, bribe them.

"I will," cried Paul, hurrying across the corridor to waylay his chum.

I am ordered to send this berserk with a troop of nineteen men to waylay thee.

The little house was quiet and dark with no one to waylay them.

The question is—Have they passed the place, where it was intended to waylay them?

Dick hurried out by the front to waylay Will, but encountered Uncle Abram.

The huntsmen, hearing of it, stole out privately to waylay him in a snare.

Word Value for waylays
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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