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un⋅laid

  [uhn-leyd]
Use unlaid in a Sentence
–adjective
1. not laid or placed: The table is still unlaid.
2. (of dead bodies) not laid out; not prepared for burial.
3. not laid to rest, as a spirit.
4. untwisted, as a rope.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME unleyd. See un- 1 , laid

un⋅lay

  [uhn-ley]
–verb (used with object), -laid, -lay⋅ing.
1. to separate (a strand) from a rope.
2. to untwist (a rope) in order to separate its strands.
Origin:
1720–30; un- 2 + lay 1
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un·laid   (ŭn-lād')   
v.  Past tense and past participle of unlay.
un·lay   (ŭn-lā')   
v.   un·laid (-lād'), un·lay·ing, un·lays Nautical

v.   tr.
To untwist the strands of (a rope).
v.   intr.
To untwist.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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