LAYER

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who, or that which, lays.

2.
n.

That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.

3.
n.

A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

4.
n.

An artificial oyster bed.