Definition of Land line

1. Noun. A telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits. "A land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave"


Definition of Land line

1. Noun. A landline ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Land Line

land area
land artist
land bridge
land bridges
land conservation and development commission
land crab
land cress
land degradation
land development
land down under
land girl
land girls
land grant
land gull
land gulls
land line
land lines
land mark
land marks
land mile
land mine
land mines
land of Nod
land of milk and honey
land of opportunity
land of plenty
land office
land on one's feet
land poor
land rail

Literary usage of Land line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Nothing appears showing that he had authority as the agent of the plaintiff to make any admissions in respect of the land line that would be binding on her. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Briefly, the minimum channel in earth cutting in the independent or artificial canal, or land line, is 75 feet wide at bottom and 123 to 171 feet at ..."

3. Brickwood's Sackett on Instructions to Juries: Containing a Treatise on Jury by Frederick Sackett, Albert William Brickwood (1908)
"... (a) If you believe, from the evidence, that the line claimed by plaintiffs as surveyed by WBA is the correct land line, then you will find for the ..."

4. A Field Manual for Railroad Engineers by James C. Nagle (1917)
"land line Ties should be made on both preliminary and location surveys at the time the field work is being done, for the reasons given in the following ..."

5. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1874)
"From the arrangement shown in the plan I have laid down a formula by which I can work out the system for the future on any land-line or cable ; and I have ..."

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