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Off-road pull-in
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lay-by
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Word definitions for lay-by in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Assuming he quit the lay-by about twelve-twenty. ▪ Dozens of drivers had stopped in the lay-by and thousands driven past. ▪ Dozens of officers descended when one convoy stopped in a lay-by . ▪ George pulled into a lay-by and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK English) A paved area at the side of a highway designated for drivers to stop in, for emergency parking, or where vehicles can wait, with larger lay-bys possibly having facilities like food vendors or public telephones. 2 (context UK English) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily; "in England they call a rest area a lay-by" [syn: layby , pull-off , rest area , rest stop ]
Usage examples of lay-by.
A landfill site, a laundrette in some charmless town, a lay-by off a dual carriageway, a wood at night.
David Hurst, a cyclist who had stopped to rest in the lay-by on the northbound section of the road near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, raised the alarm, triggering a murder probe which remains unsolved to this day.
At last, in gathering dusk, and with Jackson at the wheel, the whole gang bounced down Glen Fionart in the van to where Angus had left Micawber in a lay-by off the main road.
About a hundred miles northwest of where the little map unrolling on the dash screen said the sprawl of light called Chago was, I pulled off on a lay-by marked with big arrows of luminous rose paint.
Hyde steered the car reluctantly towards the lay-by and its small, glassed-in bus shelter.
Reaching his objective - a stalled electric rail car, rimed white over its black and gold where it stood abandoned in a lay-by - the mechanic snapped open the battery cover and shone his torch inside, examining the bank of six large batteries.