Now only Sc. and dial. Also 4, 89 lone. [See LANE sb.]
1. A lane, a by-road.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. II. 192. Lyȝere Lurkede þorw lones [B., C. lanes]. Ibid., V. 162. Clarisse of Cokkes lone [B., C. lane].
1785. Forbes, Poems Buchan Dial., 33. Why feard he to gang up the lone, and trembled at their swords?
1809. T. Donaldson, Poems, 94. An down the loan he took his flight.
1868. Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss., Lone, loan, a lane, a narrow passage.
1894. Crockett, Lilac Sunbonnet, 36. Maybes hes comin up the loan this verra meenit.
2. An open uncultivated piece of ground near a farmhouse or village, on which the cows are milked.
1715. Ramsay, Christs Kirk Gr., II. xix. Milk het frae the loan. Ibid. (1721), Ricky & Sandy, 72. Nuckle kye stand rowting in the loans.
1881. W. T. Ross, Poems, 208. From the woods and loans An answering storm was hurled.