bylane

American  

[bahy-leyn] / ˈbaɪˌleɪn /

noun

1. a secondary road or lane.

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bylane British  

/ ˈbaɪˌleɪn /

noun

1. a side lane or alley off a road

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Etymology

Origin of bylane

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

Example Sentences

The store sits in a bylane in the central Indian city of Mumbai's busy shopping precinct, and has served the community for 75 years.

From BBC

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg