noun
- a person who waits in hiding to attack or rob someone
Examples
- The merchant feared waylayers on the lonely mountain road.
- Medieval travelers often hired guards to protect them from waylayers.
- The waylayer jumped out from behind the trees.
- Police warned of waylayers targeting late-night pedestrians.
- The caravan took a different route to avoid known waylayers.
- Highway waylayers were a constant threat in the old west.