inbye — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Inside the house; inside an inner room of the house.

   Usage

   • Scotland
   • not-comparable

2. Near or nearest the house.

   Usage

   • Northern-England
   • Scotland
   • not-comparable
   • of farmland

3. Belonging to the farm or croft; as opposed to common.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

Adverb

1. Towards or into the house; into an inner room of the house.

   Usage

   • Scotland
   • not-comparable
   • Obsolete

2. Towards the coal face.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

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   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.