Put-by Definition

verb

To preserve food by canning, freezing, drying, etc.

Our family has been putting food by for generations.
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To perform an action without attracting attention.
I managed to put that transaction by accounts payable.
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To save money.

I have put a few hundred pounds by for a rainy day.
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To run a ship aground intentionally to avoid a collision.

The Bow Spring put by to avoid colliding with the Manzanillo II.
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Origin of Put-by

  • From put + by

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Put-by Sentence Examples

  • Thus " Socratitus " is merely an accident of the substance "humanitas," or, as it is put by the author of the treatise De generibus et speciebus, 1 " Man is a species, a thing essentially one (res una essentialiter), which receives certain forms which make it Socrates.

  • It is in fact worthy to be put by the side of the finest passages of chaps.

  • Pressure was put by the German powers on Charles Augustus, grand-duke of Saxe-Weimar, in whose dominions Jena university was situated, to reprove and dismiss the offenders.

  • Franklin's influence helped to oust Hillsborough, and Dartmouth, whose name Franklin suggested, was made 1 Many questions (about 20 of the first 25) were put by his friends to draw out what he wished to be known.

  • The period, from the death of Alexander to the Sassanid Ardashir I., is put by the Persian tradition at 266 years; which was afterwards corrected, after Syro-Grecian evidence, to 523 years.

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Words Starting With

PPUPUT

Words Ending With

YBY

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Words Starting With P and Ending With Y

Starts With P & Ends With YStarts With PU & Ends With YStarts With P & Ends With BY

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With Y