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alley

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alley1
1. See bowling alley
2. Tennis chiefly US the space between the singles and doubles sidelines
alley2
a large playing marble
alley
1. A service way providing a secondary public means of access to abutting properties; a narrow passageway between or behind buildings, sometimes permitting traffic for only one lane of cars.
2. A garden walk between rows of trees; an allée.
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Dey'll get yehs," screamed a retreating Rum Alley child.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context
The end of the alley was blocked by a one-story brick building, out of which issued the rhythmic thunder of the presses, running off the first edition of the ENQUIRER.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
With that thought in his heart, Richard Turlington wound his way through the streets by the river-side, and stopped at a blind alley called Green Anchor Lane, infamous to this day as the chosen resort of the most abandoned wretches whom London can produce.
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