Lay wait for verb phrase
When someone/something lays wait for, he/she/it is hiding to prepare for a surprise attack, ambush.
The tiger is laying wait for the deer. He has had nothing in his stomach for all day, so he is starving.
The Vietnamese troops were very skillful and clever to use leaves to camouflage and then laid wait for their enemies.
I knew my sister was laying wait for me behind the door to scare me, so I just pretended to be frighten when she jumped out.
A sudden attack; a hidden danger
If you say you dry gulch one, you mean that you hide and wait for him and then make a sudden attack.
This phrase should be conjugated according to its Subject and Tense.
To argue with somebody
I do not want to bandy words with you about those trivial things.