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land⋅line

[land-lahyn]
–noun
1. a circuit of wire or cable connecting two ground locations.
2. Citizens Band Radio Slang. a telephone.

Origin:
1860–65; land + line 1
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land·line   (lānd'līn')   
n.  A communications cable, as one used to transmit telephone or telegraph signals.
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