Definitions for air-line

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Spelling: [air-lahyn]
IPA: /ˈɛərˌlaɪn/

Air-Line is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in air-line (-aeiilnr).

Definitions for air-line

adjective

  1. straight; direct; traveling a direct route:

Origin of air-line

An Americanism dating back to 1805-15

Examples for air-line

Tupelo is about forty miles south of Rienzi, on an air-line.

We left the track in an air-line course for the dark mystery out of which the noise came.

Jimmy could see this point easily, for it was hardly more than a dozen miles in an air-line.

We had made twenty miles through the air-line distance from Annoatok, and Cape Sabine was but thirty miles away.

Vogel's suspicion of an air-line in the spectrum of Vesta has, accordingly, not been confirmed.

Leave her in quiet possession of the road, and we take an air-line over her back.

Although he moved swiftly, and nearly by an air-line, his thoughts scarce kept company with his feet.

Like his companion, this insect rose and encircled the stump several times, ere it darted away toward its hive, in an air-line.

The animal flew in an air-line toward a point of wood distant fully half a mile, and on the margin of the prairie.

It is seventy miles in an air-line from Stony Crossing to the fort.

Word Value for air-line
Scrable

3

Words with friends

3

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