alley has definitions from the fields of transportation,geography
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[ noun ] (transportation,geography) a narrow street with walls on both sides

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Alley fences were made of solid boards higher than one 's head , but not so high as the golden_glow in a corner or the hollyhocks that grew in a line against them .

Related terms

street thoroughfare

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 2141
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[ noun ] a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins

Related terms

lane foul_line

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