A narrow way between hedges or banks; a narrow road or street between houses or walls; a bye-way. blind lane, †turn-again lane: a cul-de-sac (see…

= turn-again alley n.

An alley closed at one end (see blind, adj. 11); a cul-de-sac; also figurative, a course of action that fails to effect its purpose or from which…

A short street closed at one end, a cul-de-sac. Often in proper names of such streets.

a blind alley, a cul-de-sac; also, a winding or crooked lane.

A lane; spec. a blind alley, a cul-de-sac; a narrow grass path; a private lane or path. Cf. lokeway, n.

A street, lane, or passage closed at one end, a blind alley; a place having no outlet except by the entrance; in Military use, said of the position…

A street, passage, or way from which there is no exit at one end; a cul-de-sac. Also in extended use.

A road, passage, etc., from which there is no exit at one end. Now chiefly U.S.

A road or way having no outlet; a blind alley, ‘cul-de-sac’. Also figurative, a position from which there is no way of escape, a ‘fix’.

concrete. Something that leads. A path; a garden path; an alley. blind lead = blind alley, n.

A road from which there is no exit at one end; a cul-de-sac. Cf. no-thoroughfare, n.