vauntlay Now arch.
Also 5 (9) vauntelay.
[f. vaunt- + -lay as in relay n.1 The compound may have existed in AF. Cf. vanlay v.]
The releasing or setting on of a relay of hounds before the other pursuing hounds have passed; the relay of hounds so released.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans E viij b, Even at his comyng yf thow lett thy howndys goo While the oder that be behynde fer arn hym froo That is a vauntelay. 1616 Bullokar Eng. Expos., Vauntlay, a terme of hunting, when they sette hounds in readynes, where they thinke a chace will passe, and cast them off before the rest of the kennell come in. [Hence in Blount (1656), Phillips, Holme, etc.] a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Vauntlay, Hounds or Beagles set in readiness [etc.]. 1842 Sir H. Taylor Edwin the Fair i. vi, She holds them all together; Relay or vauntlay 'tis the same to her. |