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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 E12 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 answer12 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

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