Laying

Laying is the skill of making equipment level. It usually involves moving equipment in small motions so that spirit levels are centralised in all planes. Movement is usually done by small worm gears or other fine setting devices for accurate small movements, together with other more coarse gears to allow large swings in motion for quick movement between different settings.

Laying is also incorrectly used when the word 'lying' is meant, as when someone says a person is laying down when a person is lying down is what was intended.

Equipment that requires laying before it is can be used accurately includes:

• theodolites
• guns and howitzers in the indirect fire mode

See also

• Gun laying

Laying is also the anme given to backing an event to lose eg betting on a horse to lose.

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