Sentence:  He skirted all stables, kennels, breweries, carpenters' shops, washhouses, places where they make tallow candles, kill oxen, forge horse-shoes, stitch jerkins—for the house was a town ringing with men at work at their various crafts—and gained the <WSD>ferny</WSD> path leading uphill through the park unseen. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Covered in or filled with ferns; flanked or surrounded by ferns.