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| alleyway |
a narrow alley or passage between buildings. |
| blind alley |
an alley or passageway with one end closed off; cul-de-sac. [1/2 definitions] |
| bowling |
a game in which a heavy ball is rolled along a wooden alley toward wooden pins that are standing at the far end. [1/2 definitions] |
| dead end |
a street, alley, or conduit that is closed at one end, offering no through passage. [1/2 definitions] |
| gutter |
the sunken trough on each side of a bowling alley. [1/10 definitions] |
| lane |
a raised wooden passageway, bounded by gutters, along which a bowling ball is pitched; alley. [1/7 definitions] |
| mews |
urban stables or carriage houses, esp. in England, that were built along an alley or grouped around a court, many of which have subsequently been converted into small houses or apartments. |
| pall-mall |
a popular seventeenth-century game in which a boxwood ball was struck with a mallet in order to drive it through an iron ring at the end of a playing alley. [2 definitions] |
| pinsetter |
a person or device that removes the pins struck down in a bowling alley and sets them up again. |
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