bypath

See also: by-path

English

Alternative forms

• by-path

Etymology

by- +‎ path

Noun

bypath (plural bypaths)

1. An unfrequented path; an indirect route; a byway.
   • 1927, Chi Li, “Archaeological Survey of the Fêng River Valley, Southern Shansi, China”, in Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1926 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections)‎^[1], volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, page 129:

     Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.

   • 1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn‎^[2], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:

     … until he knew every bypath within a radius of fifty miles of Torn.

Translations

unfrequented path, byway

• Hungarian: mellékösvény
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• Latin: dēverticulum n
• Manx: fo chassan m