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inbye

inbye adjective: inside the house; inside an inner room of the house.

Adjective

inbye (not comparable)

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

Adverb

inbye (not comparable)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) Towards or into the house; into an inner room of the house.
  2. Towards the coal face.
    • 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...1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17

Forms of inbye

alternative forminby

Origin of inbye

From in + by; from 18th century.

Questions about inbye

What does inbye mean?
Inbye means inside the house; inside an inner room of the house.
What part of speech is inbye?
Inbye can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near inbye in the dictionary

  1. inburst
  2. inbursting
  3. inburstings
  4. inbursts
  5. inby
  6. inbye
  7. inc
  8. inc.
  9. inca
  10. Inca berries
  11. Inca berry

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