Forbye

Quick meaning: Forbye is an adverb meaning Alternative form of forby.

Meaning

Alternative form of forby.

Example Sentences

[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; […]

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forthby, forby, affor, forth, herefor, forthe.

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