Know your Nautical terminology
way-lay
The verb's origin, from wegelage, means "lying in wait, with evil or hostile intent". So to be waylaid refers to a ship that has been taken off its course, route, or way by surprise, typically by unfortunate or nefarious means. In Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, the great white whale waylaid the Pequod and sank it with only a few souls surviving in lifeboats.
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Way-lay....
There’s a small railroad in northern Ohio called the Wheeling & Lake Erie, or W&LE.
My uncle, decades ago, used to refer to it as “Way-layed & Late Everywhere.
Interestingly, the W&LE still operates while several large railroads no longer exist.