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lay aboutBritish 1Beat or attack (someone) violently: they weren’t against laying about you with sticks and stones...- The guards laid about them, striking men and women with the flats of their swords.
- Dancers, casting aside their cloaks, revealed themselves as lightly armored fighters who drew all manner of weapons and began laying about them with a will.
- They laid about him with the back of their axes and overwhelmed him with stones and (thigh) bones and ox heads.
1.1 ( lay about one) Strike out wildly on all sides: the mare laid about her with her front legs and teeth...- Behave churlishly and rudely, treating everyone you encounter like some kind of moron and generally laying about you with a riding crop.
- Mary alone attempted to resist by force the intrusion of these soldiers, laying about her with a parasol to fend off the men trying to get through the bedroom door.
- I'm getting on a bit myself but I am quite willing and capable of laying about myself with a stick if need be.
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