Also 8–9 bye-. [f. BY- 3 b, + ROAD.] A road that is not a main road; a side road that does not form the highway between towns or places of importance; an out-of-the-way, little-frequented road.
1673. R. Head, Canting Acad., 91. Choose when you travel, the By-Roads.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 45, ¶ 1. Strolling wherever Chance led me, I was insensibly carried into a By-Road.
1742. R. Blair, Grave, 691. There’s no bye-road To bliss.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 377. On byroads … goods were carried by long trains of pack-horses.
