- A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle
part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the
roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall. - Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a
church with three aisles, the middle aisle. - Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into
which the pews of a church open.
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