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outbye

adv. 1 (context jargon coalminers English) pertaining to the direction away from the coal face. 2 A short distance away. 3 outside.

Usage examples of "outbye".

I had plenty to eat and the folk were very civil, but they wouldna let me outbye and there was no window to look out of.

Now ye see, for as far outbye as I live, I can tell ye some things that ye dinna hear amang your drunken cronies.