wayed

American  

[weyd] / weɪd /

adjective

1. having ways, paths, methods, etc., of a specified kind or number (used in combination).

   The director takes a two-wayed approach, mixing dialogue with voice-over narration.

   The older part of the town is narrow-wayed and quaint.

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Etymology

Origin of wayed

First recorded in 1820–30; way ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ³ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Vpon the twelft of October wee wayed our ankers at Ratcliffe and went to Blackwall.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

So she wayed him oute fyue li. into his lappe: and whyle she layde aside her balaunce, he wente his waye faire and softely.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

I wayed by star and planet shine    Towards the dear one's home At Kingsbere, there to make her mine    When the next sun upclomb.

From Poems of the Past and the Present by Hardy, Thomas

Whereupon we wayed, and made shift to double out of the land, and then the winde comming to the South-southwest, the Hart going roome with them fell three leagues to the leewards of vs.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

It is to weigh 20 ownces; he wayed it himself in my chamber: he bowght his waights purposely for it.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John