inbye

English

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Etymology

From in + by; from 18th century.

Adjective

inbye (not comparable)

  1. (Scotland) Inside the house; inside an inner room of the house.
  2. (Scotland, Northern England, of farmland) Near or nearest the house.
  3. (law, Scottish land law) Belonging to the farm or croft; as opposed to common.

Adverb

inbye (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, Scotland) Towards or into the house; into an inner room of the house.
  2. (mining) Towards the coal face.
    • 1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17:
      An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.

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