† avant-layn.
Hunting. Obsolete.
The laying on of fresh hounds to intercept a deer already chased by others.
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1486 Bk. St. Albans E viij b Even at his comyng yf thow lett thy howndys goo While the oder that be behynde fer arn hym froo That is a vauntelay.
1606 Ret. fr. Parnass. ii. v, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 149 There other huntsmen met him with an ad [v] auntreley.
a1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 93/1 Auaunt-laye, Allaye, Relaye [see abature n.].
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