Obs. Also 5 laye-, 5–6 ley-, 6 laistow(e, 7 laistoff (?). [f. LAY v. + STOW. Cf. LAIRSTOW.]

1

  1.  = LAYSTALL 1.

2

1452.  Will of Vampage (Somerset Ho.). Faciant vnum leystowe pro sepulturibus defunctorum.

3

1485.  Will of Rypon (ibid.). For my leystow in the seid chirch.

4

  2.  = LAYSTALL 2.

5

1494.  Fabyan, Chron., VII. ccxxvi. 254. This place of Smythfeelde was at yt daye a laye stowe of all order of fylth.

6

1577.  Harrison, England, II. xx. (1877), I. 325. The ancient gardens were but dunghils and laistowes.

7

a. 1665.  J. Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit, x. (1670), 304. The fumes and smells of Laistoffs, Dunghills, and putrified bodies.

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