bylane

[ bahy-leyn ]

noun

1. a secondary road or lane.

bylane

/ ˈbaɪˌleɪn /

noun

1. a side lane or alley off a road

Word History and Origins

Origin of bylane¹

First recorded in 1580–90; by- + lane ¹

Example Sentences

Opposite the shops was the inn, the doctor's house, the market-house, and a public reading-room; and a bylane led from the green up towards the church—an old, low-walled, steep-roofed building, with a square, dumpy tower, in which hung a peal of bells, and where was placed a large, round, clumsy window.

From Project Gutenberg

Two or three days before the date fixed for Rupert's departure, he was walking in the town with Mynheer Von Duyk and his daughter, when he observed a person gazing intently at him from the entrance to a small bylane.

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I brought it to a money-lender in a bylane, and I asked for three rupees upon it.

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