Definitions for first-line

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Spelling: [furst-lahyn]
IPA: /ˈfɜrstˈlaɪn/

First-Line is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 422 anagrams from letters in first-line (-efiilnrst).

Definitions for first-line

adjective

  1. available for immediate service, especially combat service:
  2. of prime importance or quality.

Origin of first-line

First recorded in 1895-1900

Examples for first-line

Sleep is a luxury indulged in but rarely in the first-line trenches.

Was it dream or reality that you were walking about in the first-line German trenches?

The intense heat created a great demand for water for the first-line troops.

He had watched their advance from the first-line British trench.

This was only the first-line strength of the Germans, the reserves being massed in the rear.

Her cottage, which was less than a mile from our first-line trenches, was partly in ruins.

It was from this ridge that they dominated the Vallarsa, and their first-line trenches were on its edge.

In the first-line trenches they could see no one and felt uncertain what to do.

It was completely cut up by a network of first-line trenches (photos, p. 159).

Under pressure of this success the Russians abandoned their first-line positions in the Meste-Canaste sector.

Word Value for first-line
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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