Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Toward the interior; nearer to; specifically, in coal-mining, toward the interior of a mine, and away from the shaft or other place where the surface is reached: the opposite of outby. Also in-over.

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  • Sandy gaed inby to the shafts, but he sprang back when Princie ga'e a squeek an 'garred his heels play tnack on the boddom o' the cairt.

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  • inby the shearer that appeared to be new, the report says.

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  • "In that case ye need not wonder that her ladyship inby should ken all, for I'm thinking it was a very informing bit letter, though the exact wording of it has slipped my recollection.

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  • "Guidman," she says, as soon as I got my nose by the door-cheek, "it was an awsome peety that ye werena inby this afternoon.

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  • Inwardly, within (Scottish).

    July 31, 2007