Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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INBAND, n. A stone set with its head or end in the face of a wall and running wholly or partly through its width, a header, as opposed to an Outband or stretcher; specif. used of a quoin or jamb stone, the long side of which lies in the return or reveal (Sc. 1952 Builder (20 June) 942). Also attrib. as in inband rybat (Ib.). The Anglicised form inbond is also found (Sc. 1869 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 386).Per. 1769 Letter in Atholl MSS.:
The Chimneys of Attick Story . . . the sides of them as we call them outband and inband Rebbits.Kcd. 1853–5 Trans. Highl. Soc. 35:
Inband rybats to go through the walls.Sc. 1861 Stephens & Burn Farm Buildings 245:
A scuncheon should be formed of in-band and out-band stones, hammer-dressed, and firmly bedded upon one another.Sc. 1952 Edb. Ev. Dispatch (10 Oct.) 8:
You may have noticed that the rybats which form the sides of the window-openings in most stone buildings are long and short alternately along the face of the wall. The short-faced rybats are called “inbands” (they bond into the backing) and the long ones are “outbands.”
