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Definition
to stop someone (without their forewarning) to attack them or to talk
- Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill, shall rob those men that we have already waylaid: yourself and I will not be there; and when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my shoulders.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — The same. An Apartment of Prince Henry's (76% in)
There are no more uses of "waylay" in Henry IV, Part 1.
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