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Vinony

stander-by

noun

  1. a person who is present when something is happening but is not involved; a bystander
  2. (nautical) a gunner's assistant (obsolete)
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. Alternative form of stander by.

    “There he was, among the standers-by, where he ought not to be; he ought to be dancing,—not classing himself with the husbands, and fathers, and whist-players, who were pretending to feel an interest in the dance till their rubbers were made up,—so young as he looked!”