Both Uses of
waylay
in
The Hobbit
- It was they who told me that three of them had come down from the mountains and settled in the woods not far from the road; they had frightened everyone away from the district, and they waylaid strangers.†
Chpt 2 *
- "It is true that we were wrongfully waylaid by the Elven-king and imprisoned without cause as we journeyed back to our own land," answered Thorin.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(waylay) to stop someone (without their forewarning) to attack them or to talk