Meaning of lait | Babel Free

Definitions

To seek; search for; inquire.

UK, ambitransitive, dialectal, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.”

“The other day I heard a girl hailing from the moorlands of Yorkshire remark that she had "laited a long time for the children, but could not find them," evidently meaning she had sought for them. Is this word common to Yorkshire?”

CEFR level