"bye-work" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1926, Plutarch, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Life of Aratus:",
          "text": "[Aratus of Sicyon] is said to have been a more ornate speaker than some think who judge from the Commentaries which he left; these were a bye-work, and were composed in haste, off-hand, and in the words that first occurred to him in the heat of contest.",
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        "Archaic form of bywork."
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          "text": "[Aratus of Sicyon] is said to have been a more ornate speaker than some think who judge from the Commentaries which he left; these were a bye-work, and were composed in haste, off-hand, and in the words that first occurred to him in the heat of contest.",
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