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lay day
noun
- Commerce. one of a certain number of days allowed by a charter party for loading or unloading a vessel without demurrage.
- Nautical. a day in which a vessel is delayed in port.
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of lay day1
Example Sentences
After a lay day Thursday, the course likely will be used again in racing on Friday because of its distance from land.
Lee praised a decision by more than 60 guardsmen to lay day down their shields at the request of the peaceful demonstrators outside the state Capitol building on Monday.
Now Wang Lung’s uncle and his wife had long since smoked all the flesh off their bones and they lay day in and day out on their beds like two old dry sticks, and there was no warmth in them.
The four races will be sailed Thursday, which had been a lay day.
If no racing is possible due to the conditions on Bermuda's Great Sound on Wednesday, it will be postponed to Thursday, which was earmarked as a "lay day" in the regatta for crews to regroup before the next round of races.
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