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Lay

/leɪ/

To place something down gently or carefully on a surface.

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He showed us into a long dining-room where breakfast was laid.

The studio is hysterical about the picture laying an egg.

He lays for a stranger, and he fetches that stranger.

Derived from Middle English leggen, from Old English lecgan, akin to Old Norse leggja, meaning to place or put.

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