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Lay about

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Verb
  1. 1
    To strike blows in all directions.

    "[...] At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage; / And laid about in fight more busily / Than th' Amazonian Dame Penthesile."

  2. 2
    To set about, with infinitive or gerund.
  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lay, about.

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