alley
/ˈæl.i/ noun B2- A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings. · The parking lot to my friend's apartment building is in the alley.
- The area between the outfielders. · He hit one deep into the alley.
- An establishment where bowling is played.
- An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
- A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
- A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
Plural alleys
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The carriage stopped at an alley leading out of the Rue Saint-Jacques.
The general alighted, leaning on the arm of the president, of whose dignity he was not aware, considering him simply as a member of the club; they went through the alley, mounted a flight of stairs, and entered the assembly-room.
“Mortimer said that the man had walked on tiptoe down that portion of the alley.”
Sir Charles Baskerville was in the habit every night before going to bed of walking down the famous yew alley of Baskerville Hall.
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