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lain along

lain along is the past participle of lie along.

Meaning of lie along

Verb

lie along (third-person singular simple present lies along, present participle lying along, simple past lay along, past participle lain along)

  1. (obsolete) To lie flat; to be extended at full length.
    • And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 7:13

Questions about lain along

What is lain along the past participle of?
Lain along is the past participle of lie along.

Words near lain along in the dictionary

  1. laimosphere
  2. laimospheres
  3. lain
  4. lain above
  5. lain ahead
  6. lain along
  7. lain around
  8. lain at someone's door
  9. lain at someone's heart
  10. lain back
  11. lain back and thought of England

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lain along (page history and authors); lie along (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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