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Definition of Layin
1. a type of shot in basketball [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Layin
Literary usage of Layin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"... I-layin» ON Til the quaint old iron kettle, resting over the glowing coals,
supported by an iron tripod thrust into the ashes of the hibachi, ..."
2. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1881)
"The thoroughbred was a-goin' in a dead run, so it was most like a-layin' in a
cradle. ... layin ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"This is called a lay, and the process is called " layin a sock " or " layin a
kooter. ... Edge-tools are similarly renewed by layin. ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"De queen she lef' her baby layin' aroun' one day, en went out callin'; en one o'
de niggers roun' 'bout de place dat was 'mos' white, she come in en see de ..."
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