The Collaborative International Dictionary
By-passage
By-passage \By"-pas`sage\, n. A passage different from the usual one; a byway.
Usage examples of "by-passage".
The guide had noted my absence upon the arrival of the party at the entrance of the cave, and had, from his own intuitive sense of direction, proceeded to make a thorough canvass of by-passages just ahead of where he had last spoken to me, locating my whereabouts after a quest of about four hours.