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View synonyms for bylane

bylane

[ bahy-leyn ]

noun

  1. a secondary road or lane.


bylane

/ ˈbaɪˌleɪn /

noun

  1. a side lane or alley off a road
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bylane1

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

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.

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

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