Sentence:  Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period , we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table <WSD>laid</WSD> out nearby for the lord and master 's delectation . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line