lay-up
or lay·up
Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard.
the operation of assembling veneers for pressing into plywood.
the operation of applying alternate layers of material and a binder to form a bonded material.
Origin of lay-up
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How to use lay-up in a sentence
The result: Birds lay up to three or four times as many eggs as in nature.
He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousSome money I do and can lay up, but not much, being worth now above L700, besides goods of all sorts.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysIf I can persuade him to store his autos and lay up his yacht and sell off his polo ponies—I'll try it, anyhow.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeIf no one was to lay up money, there would be no one to pay for work, yet toil was considered to be a duty.
Ancient Faiths And Modern | Thomas Inman
He does it just as men lay away money for ‘a rainy day,’ as we say, and as squirrels lay up a store of nuts for the cold weather.
Every Girl's Book | George F. Butler
British Dictionary definitions for lay up
to store or reserve for future use
(usually passive) informal to incapacitate or confine through illness
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Other Idioms and Phrases with lay-up
see laid up; lay in.
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