Also 6 biwalk. [f. BY- 3 b + WALK sb.] A private or sequestered walk; a by-path. lit. and fig.

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1549.  Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI., i. (Arb.), 36. Let vs not take any biwalkes, but let gods word directe vs.

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1672.  Wycherley, Love in Wood, III. iii. Have I found you in your by-walks?

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., XIII. 510, note. There should be by-walks to retire into sometimes for our ease.

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1852.  Smith, Eng. & Fr. Dict., By-walk, promenade écartée.

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  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.

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1549.  Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI., iii. (Arb.), 78. Excytinge my audience to beware of by-walkynges. Ibid., iv. 112. Absalon David’s son was a bywalker.

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1575–85.  Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 118. St. Paul noteth other by-walkers.

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