Meaning of lay system | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The system of remuneration in which fishermen or merchant mariners are paid a lay (a share of the vessel's profit) plus the value of room and board derived from being shipboard and eating in the mess.
2. A certain system of fallow farming with a certain crop rotation and rotation of arable and pasturage.
   British, archaic, especially

Examples

“He preferred the lay⟳ system because there was a chance that he could really clean⟳ up if the luck held out.”

“They farmed this whole valley on the lay⟳ system back then, and the lord kept the horses and ploughmen busy.”

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