backway

English

Etymology

back +‎ way

Noun

backway (plural backways)

1. A back alley.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, (please specify the chapter number):

     Gliding along the silent streets, and holding his course where they were darkest and most gloomy, the man who had left the widow's house crossed London Bridge, and arriving in the City, plunged into the backways, lanes, and courts […]

Anagrams

• way back, wayback