to lay one's legs aliry: to arrange one's legs so as to appear malformed or paralysed.
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c1390 (a1376) W. LanglandPiers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 115 Faytors..feynede hem blynde, And summe leiden þe legges a-liri [c1400 Trin. Cambr. a lery; a1425 Univ. Oxf. a lyry] as suche losels cunne, And playneden hem..‘We haue no lymes to labore with’.