waylay Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb wait in hiding to attack
    scupper; lie in wait; lurk; bushwhack; ambush; ambuscade.

WordNet

Way"lay` transitive verb
Etymology
Way + lay.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Waylaid ; present participle & verbal noun Waylaying
Definitions
  1. To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.
    Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. Shak.
    She often contrived to waylay him in his walks. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913