thoroughlane
English edit
Etymology edit
From thorough + lane. Doublet of throughlane.
Noun edit
thoroughlane (plural thoroughlanes)
- 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.