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lay about

verb

Definitions

  1. To strike blows in all directions.

    • [...] At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage; / And laid about in fight more busily / Than th' Amazonian Dame Penthesile.
    • Alone he could have sprung into the midst of that close-packed mob, and, laying about him after the fashion of Numa, the lion, have struck the Arabs with such consternation that escape would have been easy.

  2. To set about, with infinitive or gerund.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lay, about.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA