Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Waylay

Waylay (?; 277) , transitive verb

[Way + lay.]

To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.
Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. — Shakespeare
She often contrived to waylay him in his walks. — Sir W. Scott