Definition of "inby"
- adjective
Toward the interior; nearer to; specifically, in coal-mining, toward the interior of a mine, and away from the shaft or other place where the surface is reached: the opposite of outby.
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Toward the interior; nearer to; specifically, in coal-mining, toward the interior of a mine, and away from the shaft or other place where the surface is reached: the opposite of outby.