Deeper Dive: lane

Lane (lān), adjective [See Lone.] Alone. [Scot.]

His lane

by himself; himself alone.

Lane (lān), noun [OE. lane, lone, AS. lone, lone; akin to D. laan, OFries. lana, lona.] A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice.

It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. Tyndale.

-- Websters 1913




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