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Definition of Touchline
1. Noun. Either of the sidelines in soccer or rugby.
Definition of Touchline
1. Noun. (sports) One of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Touchline
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touchline
Literary usage of Touchline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Mosely Educational Commission to the United States of America (1904)
"Whatever be our handicap from university athleticism, America's is heavier.
There are differences in method—there fewer play, and more bet on the touchline. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"They are on either side of the ground, so that each can control one touchline
for the whole length of the ground. They should always try to keep level with ..."
3. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"... when a team secures the ball more than twenty-five yards behind its opponent's
goal, or both behind the goal and outside of the touchline (side line). ..."
4. Cambridge Essays on Education by Arthur Christopher Benson, James Byrce Bryce (1918)
"The half-holiday must not be spent in shivering on a touchline and then crowding
round a fire. That the athlete is a school hero and the scholar is not, ..."
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