Lane, n.
Etymology: [OE. lane, lone, AS. lone, lone; akin to D. laan, OFries. lana, lona.]
A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, ras, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. Tyndale.
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Lane, a.
Alone [Scot.] His lane, by himself; himself alone.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for lane; he lists it under way.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.