Now only Sc. and dial. Also 4, 8–9 lone. [See LANE sb.]

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  1.  A lane, a by-road.

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1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. II. 192. Lyȝere … Lurkede þorw lones [B., C. lanes]. Ibid., V. 162. Clarisse of Cokkes lone [B., C. lane].

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1785.  Forbes, Poems Buchan Dial., 33. Why fear’d he to gang up the lone, and trembled at their swords?

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1809.  T. Donaldson, Poems, 94. An’ down the loan he took his flight.

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1868.  Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss., Lone, loan, a lane, a narrow passage.

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1894.  Crockett, Lilac Sunbonnet, 36. Maybes he’s comin’ up the loan this verra meenit.

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  2.  An open uncultivated piece of ground near a farmhouse or village, on which the cows are milked.

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1715.  Ramsay, Christ’s Kirk Gr., II. xix. Milk het frae the loan. Ibid. (1721), Ricky & Sandy, 72. Nuckle kye stand rowting in the loans.

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1881.  W. T. Ross, Poems, 208. From the woods and loans An answering storm was hurled.

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