alley

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A choice taw or large playing-marble. Also spelled ally.
• noun A passage; especially, a narrow passage.
• noun A narrow passage or way in a town, as distinct from a public street. In a printing-office, the space between two rows of composing-stands, in which compositors work at the cases on the stands.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A choice taw or marble.
• noun A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
• noun A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
• noun A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
• noun (Persp.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
• noun The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A glass marble or taw.
• noun A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
• noun baseball The area between the outfielders, the gap.
• noun bowling An establishment where bowling is played; bowling alley.
• noun tennis The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
• noun a narrow street with walls on both sides