Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A secluded or private walk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A secluded or private walk.
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Examples
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As he was one day gravelling a little by-walk, wrapped in thought, the
Israel Potter Herman Melville 1855
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Our plan was this, -- each person stationed himself in some by-walk or alley, and waited till the other, whose turn it was, came and leaped over him; so that, besides the activity displayed, there was a knowledge of the _locale_ necessary; for to any one passed over a forfeit was to be paid.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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