thoroughlane

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English

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Etymology

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From thorough +‎ lane. Doublet of throughlane.

Noun

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thoroughlane (plural thoroughlanes)

  1. A way through, thoroughway.
    • 2003, Jaap Blonk, Let's go out:
      We thought we'd taken a thoroughlane, but it must have been a hook road or a circlepath that with a netherbend led us through slant grass into this mortal vale.
    • 2009, George B. Bookman, Headlines, Deadlines and Lifelines, page 344:
      The streets all go steeply down hill from the main thoroughlanes, they twist and turn.
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