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Lane vs Backway - What's the difference?

lane | backway |

As a verb lane

is borrow.

As a noun backway is

a back alley.

lane

English

(wikipedia lane)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees
  • A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles
  • A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart
  • A course designated for ships or aircraft
  • (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.

    • Derived terms

    * laneway * memory lane * shipping lane * swimlane

    See also

    * alley * alleyway * carriageway * direction * gennel, ginnel, guinnel, gunnel, jennel * gitty, jitty * side * passage * roadway * snicket * wynd

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    Anagrams

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    backway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A back alley.
  • * (Charles Dickens), Barnaby Rudge
    • 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