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单词 to lay watch
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to lay watch
9. A lying in wait, an ambush; hence an insidious design or plot. Phrases, to lay watch, to place an ambush, to lie at, in, watch (for). Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch [verb (intransitive)]
wait1338
to do, make waitc1440
to lay watch?a1475
invigilate1553
advigilate1623
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile lying in wait > a lying in wait or ambush
waitingc1200
spyc1380
settingc1430
watch?a1475
wait1533
stale1557
ambush1573
imboscata1595
stand1616
belaying1677
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 195 Helle..fleenge the wacches of here steppe moder [L. fugiens insidias novercales].
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 430/2 Kepyng hym self ryght curyously fro the prychyng sawtes and watche of the world.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. 207 Þai..began to drede sum hid watche and tressoun [L. insidias vereri].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. xi. 68 And beholde, the hoostes of the Heithen met them in the felde, & layed watch for them in the mountaynes.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5585 Bot the ffreikes were ferd of hor fre shippes, ffor to caire by the coste, & knew not the waches.
1545 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 183 Defendauntes..leyd at divers tymes watch to take the corne off the said complaynaunt.
1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus sig. Bvjv For if we shuld not muche forbeare and forgyue one another,..we shoulde neuer haue measure nor ende of chiding, scoldynge, layinge in watche one of an other [etc.].
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 68 Thai lay at the vacht lyik the ald subtil doggis.
1555 H. Braham Inst. Gentleman sig. Evij Manius..was..abhorred of hys own soldiers, euen so muche as they tooke hym in a watche, and set hym vpon an Asse backe hys fete bounde vnder the bely of the Asse [etc.].
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iii. 91 He [the trout] gets him into swifter and swifter streams, and there lies at the watch for any flie or Minow that comes neer to him. View more context for this quotation
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