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third-person singular simple present laits, present participle laiting, simple past and past participle laited
(transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To seek; search for; inquire. quotations
By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.
1862, Song of Solomon, in Twenty-four English Dialects, page 282 (Westmorland dialect)
The other day I heard a girl hailing from the moorlands of Yorkshire remark that she had "laited a long time for the children, but could not find them," evidently meaning she had sought for them. Is this word common to Yorkshire?
1877, John Frances, quoting a girl from the moorlands of Yorkshire, Notes and queries, page 10