Thoroughlane

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A way through, thoroughway.

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From thorough + lane. Doublet of throughlane.

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