Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sluggish place in a river, or still water artificially inclosed, in which barges can be laid by when out of commission.
- noun Something laid by or saved, especially money.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Chiefly Brit. A paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
lay-by .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily
- noun designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily
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Examples
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Two men will appear in court on Wednesday charged with the murder of a 29-year-old man whose body was found in a layby.
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I scoff at those making christmas plans and having to put gifts on layby in July in order to pay for them by the end of the year.
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I scoff at those making christmas plans and having to put gifts on layby in July in order to pay for them by the end of the year.
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Two men have been charged after the body of Mohim Miah was found in a Hertfordshire layby.
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Pilkington, a 38-year-old mother from Leicestershire, had endured a decade of harassment when, in 2007, she drove herself, and her daughter Francecca Hardwick, to a layby and set their car alight.
Police watchdog Amerdeep Somal: 'I read her diaries. It was humbling' 2011
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Instead, we had to drive to a layby somewhere beyond Calais where I was taken, weeping, into a toilet block.
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Pilkington, then 38, died alongside her severely disabled 18-year-old daughter, Francecca, in October 2007 after driving to a layby and setting the car on fire.
Disability hate crime could lead to more suicides like Fiona Pilkington 2011
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We shot it in the South of France – I'm wearing Ken Russell's helmet and cloak from The Devils and, I'm sorry to say, in our rush to get back to London, we left Roman Polanski's sword from Macbeth in the layby.
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Park in one of the laybys on either side of the village, around 200 metres away.1 From either layby, walk into Trevescan village.
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I've had the deluxe hardcover edition of Tales of Pain and Wonder on layby at my local SF store for months.
"Living out our second-hand clichés." greygirlbeast 2010
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