A small platform or ledge in a coal mine where workers rest.
Likely from dialectal British English, possibly related to 'rim' or mining terminology. The exact origin is obscure, but it appears in mining records from the 18th century onward.
Coal miners invented their own vocabulary to describe their dangerous world—words like 'arrimby' tell us about the practical details of everyday mining life that rarely appear in formal histories.
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