Definition of "lay up" []

• To store; to put by. (verb)
• To disable. (verb)
• To take out of active service. (verb)
• To go out of active service. (verb)
• To make a layup with (a basketball) (verb)

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• "My route lay up a long and spacious valley called the Bellows, because the winds rush up or down it with violence in storms, sloping up to the very clouds between the principal range and a lower mountain."
• "The first night I walked about 15 miles, and lay up for the the day on John Maryman's, Pine Hill; this was on a Sunday."
• "Upon his return from the Bath, all peccant humours, he finds, are purged out of him; and his great temperance and economy are so signal, that the first is fit for my constitution, and the latter would enable you to lay up so much money as to buy a bishopric in England."