Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In railroading, a train, particularly a freight- or local passenger-train, which is detained on a siding to allow an express-train to pass.
- noun Same as
lay-down .
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Examples
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At any rate, Newt may be going to heaven, after a long lay-over in Purgatory, but he is not going to the White House as President.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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At any rate, Newt may be going to heaven, after a long lay-over in Purgatory, but he is not going to the White House as President.
The most successful snake-oil salesman in America today 2009
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The men had expected some sort of a lay-over in which to rest up; besides, this Klondike was a new section of the Northland, and they had wished to see a little something of the Golden City where dust flowed like water, and dance halls rang with never ending revelry.
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Well, it was meant to be humorous, of course, unless you do actually have the opportunity to make a lay-over and had not thought that BEA was there and might be useful.
Events And Suchlike karenhealey 2010
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The men had expected some sort of a lay-over in which to rest up; besides, this Klondike was a new section of the Northland, and they had wished to see a little something of the Golden City where dust flowed like water, and dance halls rang with never ending revelry.
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Yesterday I was flying back from a conference in Banff and picked up a copy of New Scientist during a protracted lay-over.
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Yesterday I was flying back from a conference in Banff and picked up a copy of New Scientist during a protracted lay-over.
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When doing camping/paddling trips, it's great to have a lay-over day by a river or lake and do the laundry; a clothesline in the wilderness.
Clotheslines James Gurney 2009
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Day 4 ~ 1970: "During the two-hour lay-over, before our last leg to Seoul, I began to have serious doubts..."
Day 4 ~ 1970 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2009
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I thought my trip to India ended in India, but on the five hour lay-over in Finland, when I fell asleep on the bus to the city (first noting that the Finnish seemed extremely pale, compared to Indians, and the skyline astonishingly gray), I woke up and found a smiling man next to me.
Karin Badt: The King of Morocco and a Little Girl in Bombay (xvii) 2008
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