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air-line
[ air-lahyn ]
adjective
- straight; direct; traveling a direct route:
Some railroads advertise air-line routes between stations.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of air-line1
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Example Sentences
It was known, in advance, by the combination, that the working up of the corner in Muscogee Air Line would be a long operation.
The corner in Muscogee Air Line, was as evasive as a huckleberry in a mouth bereft of its armament.
They had been twelve hours on the wing and had covered a distance which, by air line, measured more than five hundred miles.
Distances are in kilometers; all are map (air line) distances, unless otherwise indicated.
The Seaboard Air Line, therefore, when it gave to this little switching road for a twenty-mile haul, about forty per cent.
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