lay days

Since then, racing has been delayed by a combination of low winds and scheduled lay days.

Due to the lack of wind the first week, the second round robin began without any lay days after the first.

Because of a combination of bad weather and scheduled lay days, there has been no racing for a week.

"Only a hen, goodman, who is past her laying days."

The postponement adds to a string of delays caused by light winds and scheduled lay days.

These tall jagged peaks were not the Spine of the World; that was much higher, and lay days to the west yet.

The number of days a tramp ship is chartered for is called lay days.

"Lay days" (noncycling days) were spent in Burgos and Leon, both cathedral cities, and of course Santiago de Compostela.

It was later determined that the San Diego had struck a mine laid days before by the German submarine U-156, with the explosion igniting the ship's magazine and coal bunkers.

Waymeet lay days behind, and he'd managed to conquer his fury at what had happened there, yet the all-pervasive hostility around him was worse, in its way, than anything he'd been forced to endure in Navahk.

Behind Matthew Gross lay days when he hovered between life and death, a week of coma and more than a month at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in East Orange, N.J., a 15- or 20-minute ride from his home.

The contract usually provides that Sundays and holidays shall be excepted in counting the lay days, but unless expressly stipulated this exception does not apply to the computation of the period of detention after the lay days have expired.

Demurrage is a fixed sum per day or per hour agreed to be paid by the charterer for any time during which the vessel is detained in loading or discharging over and above the time allowed, which is, as we have said, usually described as the lay days.