bypath

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bypath
    n 1: a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) [syn:
         {byway}, {bypath}, {byroad}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bypath \By"path`\, n.; pl. {Bypaths}.
   A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.
   [1913 Webster]

         God known, my son,
         By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways,
         I met this crown.                        --Shak.
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