"byfall" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, William Senior, Near and far",
          "text": "There was the small byfall to which I have referred; there was the weir proper; there was a broadish lasher, the whole between them making a very fair description of tumbling bay, flanked by strong, individual streams.",
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