Crossword clues for alleys
alleys
- Indoor sports venues
- Sites for strikes
- Pin sites
- Narrow backstreets
- Feral cats' haunts
- Where pin boys once worked
- Tomcats' stalking grounds
- Small streets
- Side streets
- Places you'll see balls and strikes
- Places to see splits
- Places to see bowlers
- Passages between buildings
- Narrow streets between buildings
- Narrow lanes
- Narrow back streets
- Many have pins at one end
- Bowling places
- Back ways
- Back lanes
- Bowling lanes
- Mews
- Back streets
- Bowling spots
- Roads less traveled
- Where semis aren't typically seen
- Places where you can hear a pin drop?
- They may be blind
- Gasoline and Shubert
- Bowlers' surfaces
- Gasoline and Tin Pan
- Ways, often
- Strike zones?
- Places for pins
- Narrow passages
- Strike settings
- Side roads
- Bowling sites
- Keglers' spots
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alley \Al"ley\, n.; pl. Alleys. [OE. aley, alley, OF. al['e]e, F. all['e]e, a going, passage, fr. OE. aler, F. aller, to go; of uncertain origin: cf. Prov. anar, It. andare, Sp. andar.]
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A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
I know each lane and every alley green.
--Milton. A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
--Gay.A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
(Persp.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
Alley \Al"ley\, n.; pl. Alleys. [A contraction of alabaster,
of which it was originally made.]
A choice taw or marble.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of alley English)
Usage examples of "alleys".
Then he would turn into the shadowy alleys to have a look at his boon companions and his wenches.
Their little house was near the harbor, just where the Jewish quarter began, in a welter of narrow, winding alleys plagued alike by sultry winds and cutting sea air.
Was this Megalokastro, enslaved by the 99 the alleys of the poor quarter and the "of refuse?
Quickly they crossed the market place, passed the plane tree and pasha's palace, entered the narrow alleys and reached the harbor.
Every evening, as the sun sank and the alleys grew shadowy, a Greek with a large fez and jaunty boots walked back and forth, casting loving glances at the latticed balcony above.
The Christians crossed themselves, opened their doors and streamed, bowed down and silent, through the alleys of Megalokastro, to learn once more how God had suffered at the hands of men.
Like a dog, his thoughts ran through the 193 narrow alleys and stopped, barking, in front of a green door.
He did not go into Broad Street, but made his way through the narrow alleys.
He turned into the crooked alleys near the harbor, passed through the Jewish quarter and was again in his own part of the town, in front of the grand house of Idomeneas.
He ranged about the narrow alleys, following the old paths of his youth.
But after he had sweated and cursed and chanted his way through the streets of Onaback and had arrived safely at the alleys of the west bluff, he relaxed.
You felt as if you were sharing a secret with the alleys and the things of the alleys.
We ain’t allowed to hang aroun streets, so we make our alleys into little kingdoms.
But I still wasn’t too happy in the alleys because a them figurin dogs.
Should he find the hat, he might blossom forth, actually tear himself loose from the taboos that bound him to the dumpheap, to the alleys, to fear of dogs, to the conviction he was an inferior and oppressed citizen.