waylaid

alternative waylayed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of waylay

   My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

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   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.

   c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]