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Definition of Lay up
1. Verb. Disable or confine, as with an illness. "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"
Definition of Lay up
1. Verb. (transitive) To store; to put by. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To disable. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To take out of active service. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To go out of active service. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive basketball) To make a layup with (a basketball) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lay Up
Literary usage of Lay up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... at seven years end, upon tht draught, not one fish was left, but the two pikes
grown to> an excessive bigness. Ht-. 3. To lay up ; to hoard. ..."
2. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1883)
"... to lay up a store of these articles, to furnish me against the wet season— My
cat, which I supposed lost, returns with kittens—I regulate my diet, ..."
3. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"... lay up in their memories, and always keep by them in readiness, those
arguments •which appear to them of the greatest strength, and which cannot be got ..."
4. Marine Insurance: Its Principles and Practice by William David Winter (1919)
"Cancellation and Lay-up Return Premiums.—Reference has already been made to ...
Claims for lay-up returns are sometimes made under these circumstances and ..."
5. Marine Insurance: Its Principles and Practice by William D. Winter (1919)
"Cancellation and Lay-up Return Premiums.—Reference has already been made to ...
Claims for lay-up returns are sometimes made under these circumstances and ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1839)
"Is he placable, one who will not lay up the memory of an accidental slight, of
a heated expression, or of an unintentional wrong, which you have done every ..."
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