Also 6 biwalk. [f. BY- 3 b + WALK sb.] A private or sequestered walk; a by-path. lit. and fig.
1549. Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI., i. (Arb.), 36. Let vs not take any biwalkes, but let gods word directe vs.
1672. Wycherley, Love in Wood, III. iii. Have I found you in your by-walks?
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIII. 510, note. There should be by-walks to retire into sometimes for our ease.
1852. Smith, Eng. & Fr. Dict., By-walk, promenade écartée.
So By-walker, one who frequents by-paths, one who strays from the highway or right way; lit. and fig.; also By-walking vbl. sb.
1549. Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI., iii. (Arb.), 78. Excytinge my audience to beware of by-walkynges. Ibid., iv. 112. Absalon Davids son was a bywalker.
157585. Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 118. St. Paul noteth other by-walkers.