Laybys

Word LAYBYS
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Definitions and meanings of "Laybys"

What do we mean by laybys?

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.

A railroad siding; a second, short railroad track just to the side of a railroad track, connected with the main track by a switch and used for unloading, bypassing, etc.

A widened section of a narrow river or canal, formed to one side so as to leave the channel free, for mooring of vessels, where vessels can lay over or allow others to pass.

A method of retail purchase in which the selected goods are set aside and the customer pays for them in instalments, receiving them when fully paid; layaway.

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The word "laybys" in example sentences

Park in one of the laybys on either side of the village, around 200 metres away.1 From either layby, walk into Trevescan village. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the evenings, when I get out of the car my knuckles are stiff from gripping the wheel, and I drink a lot of wine with my long-suffering friends, who have spent much of the day in laybys, waiting for me to catch up with them. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Of course, they might keep to 50 if there were speed camera signs, or police cars parked in laybys. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I started to understand the blocked off laybys and the concrete blocks in the gateways of the fallow fields. ❋ Laban (2005)

Taylor and he were the vanguard in what began building into a small convoy as they got nearer to Dubh Ardrain, with vehicles pulling out from laybys at their back, prompted by confirmatory flashes of the Espace's headlights. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

South Wales Police are asking the public to be on the alert for a suspicious white or blue van, or any unmarked cars or vans parked in laybys or close to street lighting, and to note down registration numbers and report them as soon as possible. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Should we designate special laybys to be used for cuddle-breaks, just to calm you down? ❋ Charlie Brooker (2011)

We'll have to pull on to other people's land, carparks and laybys, but travelling life is finished now. ❋ Patrick Barkham (2011)

All laybys within the section of road will be closed for 24 hours daily during the works period. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As parliament was told recently, motorway embankments are strewn with plastic bags and the laybys on A-roads are overflowing with fast-food packaging and plastic bottles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eastbound laybys and gaps in the central reserve will be closed with right-turn manoeuvres banned at Beck Wythop junction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The quiet Tailfan would have been capable of operating to and from from small airstrip-laybys in residential areas, and with the addition of modern robo-autopilot/air-traffic equipment (and perhaps the ability to drive on roads like the Terrafugia Transition) might have turned into a true PAV in time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The result is vicious turf wars with gangs using extreme violence to maintain their control over key sites such as busy laybys on useful routes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hambantota is also useful for laybys but that is in the long term. ❋ Unknown (2009)

DRIVERS caught parking on laybys for more than two hours on major routes around Carlisle face a fine or being towed away. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Drivers to be fined for loitering in Carlisle laybys ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not the fact that you have just driven youself to the local laybys in your 4x4 rooting round the bins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For in both shows, the ultimate plot twist - as much of a resolution as we ever got - was that all that dysfunction, madness, violence and contempt for human life, all those bodies of kids in Baltimore row houses and squalid deaths in New Jersey laybys were, in the final analysis, fuelled by one thing: money. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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