lay system

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  1. The system of remuneration in which fishermen or merchant mariners are paid a lay (a share of the vessel's profit) plus the value of room and board derived from being shipboard and eating in the mess.
    — He preferred the lay system because there was a chance that he could really clean up if the luck held out.
  2. A certain system of fallow farming with a certain crop rotation and rotation of arable and pasturage. UK,archaic,especially
    — They farmed this whole valley on the lay system back then, and the lord kept the horses and ploughmen busy.

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