Both Uses of
waylay
in
The Two Towers
- For already he knows that the messengers that he sent to waylay the Company have failed again.†
Chpt 3.5 *
- I do not wish to see it, or touch it, or know more of it than I know (which is enough), lest peril perchance waylay me and I fall lower in the test than Frodo son of Drogo.†
Chpt 4.5
Definition:
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(waylay) to stop someone (without their forewarning) to attack them or to talk