The Collaborative International Dictionary
By-street
By-street \By"-street`\, n. A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach.
--Gay.
Usage examples of "by-street".
To hear it aright you must stand in the darkness of such a by-street as this, and for the moment be at one with those who dwell around, in the blear-eyed houses, in the dim burrows of poverty, in the unmapped haunts of the semi-human.