Sc. [An emphasized form of lane LONE. The first element is of doubtful origin; Ramsay has liefu’ lane in the same sense: see LEEFUL.] Only in phrase by (one’s) lee-lane: quite alone, by (one)self.
1878. Stevenson, Merry Men, ii. Praying … that God would ‘remember … fower puir, feckless, fiddling, sinful creatures here by their lee-lane beside the great and dowie waters.’
