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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lane, Lain(e, Layn(e, Lean(e, n.⁴ [Late adoption of e.m.E. and ME. lane, OE. lane, lone (cf. Lone n.¹).] A lane or narrow street in a town; an alley, ‘wynd’ or ‘vennel’. — 1652 Nicoll Diary 97.
A violent … fyre [in Glasgow], quhairby … wer brint … above fourscoir laynes and clossis c1670 Gordon's Aberd. 9.
The closses, lanes, and streets 1675 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 291.
Ane fitt persone … to goe thorrow the haill streits and laines of the toune … and … remove the … middings 1675 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 225.
Building of the cisternes upon the High Street and buy leanes of the citie 1679 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 276.
To try if they can buy the said landis for being a lean