An alley or long enclosure for playing at bowls or skittles: cf. ALLEY 4.
1555. Act 2 & 3 Phil. & M., ix. Licence … for the having … of any Bowling-Allies.
1612. Rowlands, Knave of Clubs. At Bedlam bowling-alley, late Where cittizens did bet.
1703. Art’s Improv., I. 9. The Use of them, in Paving the Streets, and laying of bowling-Allies.
1884. H. C. Bunner, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 298/2. The establishment of a good bowling-alley is the signal for the appearance of half a dozen new bowling clubs.
