lay day
noun
1
: one of the days allowed by the charter for loading or unloading a vessel
2
: a day of delay in port
Word History
First Known Use
1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- back-checked
- back-checker
- back-checking
- back-checks
- back-fanged
- back-feed
- back-fence
- back-filleted
- back-formation
- back-front
- back-geared
- back-heeled
- back-heeling
- back-heels
- back-loaded
- back-loading
- back-loads
- back-of-the-envelope
- back-office
- back-order
- back-ordered
- back-ordering
- back-orders
- back-page
- back-paint