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 . Alsoin-over .
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This brings me to this MarquardtBeauty Analysis website, sent inby Kiran D.
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But we got him made gey snod, an 'syne we gaed inby to the ben-hoose fireside, an' had
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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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.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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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.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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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.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
flannagan commented on the word inby
Inwardly, within (Scottish).
July 31, 2007