thoroughlane

English

Etymology

From thorough +‎ lane. Doublet of throughlane.

Noun

thoroughlane (plural thoroughlanes)

1. 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.