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Definition of Service line
1. Noun. The back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line.
Definition of Service line
1. Noun. (tennis badminton) The line, in tennis and similar sports, behind which the ball is initially served and over which the feet must not cross when serving ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Service Line
Literary usage of Service line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"The courts are again divided by a " service line," drawn parallel to the base
lines at a distance of 26 feet from the net. The ground may be longer than ..."
2. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"19, " ' service line,' means, any Electric Line through which ENERGY may be
supplied, or intended to be supplied, by the Undertakers to a CONSUMER, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When a ball in play drops or falla upon a ball or other object which is on the
floor (except when it is on or beyond the service line ; see law 14 («)) ..."
4. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1916)
"Service — Power of Commission — Compelling consumer to repair service line. 1.
The Illinois Commission has no power to require an electric consumer to ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"S. The ball served must drop within the service-line, half-court-line, and
side-line of the court which is diagonally opposite to that from which it was ..."
6. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1915)
"Is It Sound to Volley from Service-Line? Very Few Find It So OPINIONS OF THE EXPERTS
... CP DIXON : Not as a rule, but volleying from service-line should be ..."
7. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1922)
"Is It Sound to Volley from Service-Line? Very Few Find It So OPINIONS OF THE EXPERTS
... CP DIXON : Not as a rule, but volleying from service-line should be ..."
8. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"On the hazard-side there are no chase-lines in the service-court, the first-line
is half-a-yard from the service-line, the second a yard, the third a yard ..."
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