Wednesday, May 13, 2015

What's the meaning of 'lay over'?



Dictionary says 'lay over' means 'a short stop in a journey', 'stopover', but I don't understand this sentence translating 'lay over' as 'stopover'.


Here is the sentence, which is from 'Baker's blue-jay yarn' by Mark Twain:



And there's yet another thing; in the one little particular of scolding - just good, clean, out-and-out scolding - a blue-jay can lay over anything, human or divine. Yes, sir, a jay is everything that a man is.





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