waylaid

Definition

simple past and past participle of waylay

Example Sentences

• "I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage alone. 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."
• "My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion"