forelay v EDD fore (69) ~ lay 'to get ahead ... of anything' K; ADD 1; G S WASSON Cap'n Simeon's Store (1903), pp. 225-6 [Maine]. To get ahead or in front of (a person).
   T 58/64-64 Well how much trout was there? I mean. if you were rigged for gettin' trout ... thousands, I'd say. One trying to forelay the other as you landed it they were that plenty. T 148-65 She knowed a place they used to go every night. So this night she forelaid him and she got in a tree. 1966 SCAMMELL 91 If I don't be forelaid by one of them Easter Tickle pirates. 1977 RUSSELL 122 I noticed these two barrels there, gettin' in our way, but Jethro forelaid me whenever I went to shift one of 'em, so I didn't much heed to 'em first along.

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