Lay-by

[f. LAY v.¹ + BY adv.]

  A.  sb.

  1.  A ‘slack’ part of a river in which barges are laid by out of use.

1879.  E. J. Castle, Law of Rating, 61. Pumping station, wharf, lay-by for barges.

1891.  Field, 7 March, 344/2. A lay-by near Windsor Bridge. Ibid. (1892), 17 Sept., 454/3. Screened lay-byes and deep pools.

1899.  Daily News, 11 May, 2/6. There is a river frontage to the Thames of 160ft. with private dock and lay-by for three barges.

  2.  Something laid by or saved; savings.

1894.  Baring-Gould, Kitty Alone, III. 65. I had gone with all my little lay-by to get you out of your difficulties.

  b.  attrib. or adj. Intended to be ‘laid by.’

1804.  W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., I. 492. You might … have executed … a correct and expurgated copy for a lay-by edition.