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.
p. 42.8 *waylaid = ambushed
- "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.
p. 181.9waylaid = stop unexpectedly
Definition:
to stop someone unexpectedly -- usually to attack or to talk