Expose to a chance of loss or damage.
1Two unfortunate small villages which lay on the line of march were surrounded and the inhabitants massacred.
2Stafford county would be full of Nicholson's militia, and Lawrence's strong hand lay on the line of the Borders.
3Already there were a few wounded on both sides, perhaps a few dead among the passengers who lay on the line.
4Once the Organization's terms and conditions had been laid on the line, that was postponed indefinitely.
5It is the state highway, laid on the line of a Roman road, from Albert to Bapaume.
6"Ordinarily I'd say 'no comment', but we're laying on the line... well..."
7He says that your cousin the duke spoke of the death of the Tudors and a curse laid on the line.'
8[Footnote: Montjoy was the name given during the Middle Ages to any little rise of ground which lay on the line between two territorial divisions.
Translations for lay on the line