lanes
/leɪnz/ noun B1- bowling alley · We spent every weekend down at the lanes.
- One side of a divided highway that carries traffic in a single direction. · the northbound lanes of Interstate 95
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Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen’s class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood cuts and meadow byways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months.
At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes.
The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart’s-tongue ferns.
Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed.
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