or -close, -sea, subs. phr. (old).—The throat; GUTTER-ALLEY (q.v.).—GROSE.

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  1566.  UDALL, Roister Doister, i. 3. M. Mumb. And sweete malte maketh ioly good ale for the nones. Tib Talk. Whiche will slide downe the LANE without any bones.

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  1812.  COLMAN, Poetical Vagaries, 75.

        O! butter’d egg! best eaten with a spoon,
  I bid your yelk glide down my throat’s RED LANE.

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