8d. Circular (rarely) one's taken around Edinburgh's capital, getting one just beyond there (5)
I have OER?Y
I thought it might be a contraction of OVERBY, (E in ORBY, circular), but I can't find it in Chambers.
John Jamieson O'ERBY, adv. Over ; denoting motion from one place to another at no great distance from it, S. Quo' she unto the sheal step ye o'erby. Ross's Helenore, p. 76.
John Jamieson
O'ERBY, adv. Over ; denoting motion from one place to another at no great distance from it, S. Quo' she unto the sheal step ye o'erby. Ross's Helenore, p. 76.