forbye

Definitions

Preposition. [A2]

Examples

“[T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish⟳ frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land⟳ carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make⟳ their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]”

They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]

“She never seemed to want⟳ for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.”

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