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Word entry · 4 letters

line

Best crossword clue

"Drawn stroke"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /laɪn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eilnStarts with LEnds with E20 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A row, mark, or route

Word origin

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).

Used in a sentence

  • The arrow descended in a curved line.
  • St Johnstone's Liam Craig had to clear off the line before Steven Anderson sent a looping header into his own net for the equaliser on 36 minutes.
  • "I guess it's like race cars - if you get the right line you can come out at top speed."

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer20 curated clues

01Drawn stroke4 letters
02Fishing cord4 letters
03Queue4 letters
04Queue at a counter4 letters
05Queue at a store4 letters
06Queue for tickets4 letters
07Queue of people4 letters
08Queue or drawn mark4 letters
09Queue or mark4 letters
10Queue or straight mark4 letters
11Queue or straight stroke4 letters
12Queue or stroke4 letters
13Queue outside a shop4 letters
14Row of waiting people4 letters
15Row or mark4 letters
16Sentence in a script4 letters
17Straight mark4 letters
18Straight mark on paper4 letters
19String of words4 letters
20Long narrow mark4 letters

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