ETYMOLOGY
from by- + dweller
EXAMPLE
“… Their number encreasing, and doings outragious, Sir Edmund Windam Knight, at that time high Shiriffe of the Shire, made proclamation among them in the Kings
name to depart, which if they did not foorthwith, he pronounced them Traitors, but had not his Horse beene the swifter, he had beene either taken or slain, thereupon their terror began to be fearefull, & themselues to be furnished with weapons, Armour, and Artillery, daily brought them in abundance by the By-dwellers, besides store of victuals to maintaine their Campe. ….”
From: The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales…
By John Speed, 1611
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