sidelinen.
/ˈsʌɪdlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdˌlaɪn/ 1.
a. A line forming the side of a shape or area; spec. a boundary line marking the side of a plot of land, road, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > something at the side > specific
sideboard1463
sideline?a1560
sidebar1675
the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > linearity > [noun] > a linear object or mark > on the side
sideline?a1560
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xii. sig. D.iijv Cause the plummet and thread to fall vpon the side line of your quadrant where the degrees beginne.
1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 644 The Elliptick Cone ACD to the whole ABE is in a Triplicat ratio of the Side-line AB or AE, to the Geometrical Meane between AC and AD.
1694 in Colonial Rec. N. Carolina (1886) I. 410 The dividing line..shall run paralel with Cornelius Lerrys side line.
1710 S. Denton Deed 16 Dec. in B. D. Hicks Rec. N. & S. Hempstead, Long Island (1897) II. 390 The other lott..lying Joyning to the side line on the west side of Samuell Smiths land.
1811 T. Jefferson Surv. of Boundary 17 Apr. in Papers (2006) Retirement Ser. III. 571 These courses from the fore & aft to the last side line tree.
1838 J. Shepley Rep. Supreme Court Maine 1 334 The other side line and the two end lines..being delineated, and the exact distance between the side lines marked on the plan, the true boundaries of that lot may be ascertained with entire precision.
1907 Cycl. Archit., Carpentry & Building II. 34 Lay off on one of the side lines already laid out on the ground, any multiple of three feet.
1992 H. Eves Fund. Mod. Elem. Geom. ii. 88 There are four circles touching all three side lines of a triangle.
2015 P. Gay Pract. Boundary Surv. xviii. 308 Assume that Main Street is straight and that the two sidelines of Roswell St. are parallel.
b. Sport. Either of the two lines forming the side boundaries of a football field, basketball court, tennis court, or similar playing area. Originally also (in quot. 1862): = goal line n.
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society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] > line
line1550
trig1648
sideline1862
touchline1863
foul line1870
backline1890
trigger1891
centreline1920
by-line1936
stripe1967
1862 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 413/2 Two side-lines, called goal-lines, are drawn from each of the goals.
1864 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 Mar. 176/1 Whenever a ball is kicked out at the side-lines, it is brought straight in.
1886 J. Dwight Lawn Tennis ii. i. 41 He may play down the side-line or he may lob.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 15 June 9/1 Barrett scored many aces by clean side-line drives.
1962 Times 6 Feb. 4/6 As is usual at the universities nowadays, the game [sc. lacrosse] was played with side-lines and bye-lines.
1992 Basketball Digest Apr. 18/1 He's still the marauding defender who patrols from sideline to sideline as one of the game's great intimidators.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 22 Dec. iii. 4/4 The 59-yard touchdown pass to Booker down the right sideline..made the Redskins' defense respect the long ball.
c. In plural (and occasionally in singular) with the, esp. in on (also from) the sidelines.
(a) Sport. The area immediately beyond (one of) these boundaries, as a place for non-players such as coaches, substitutes, and spectators.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > area for play > specific part
left1877
sidelines1894
forecourt1921
1894 N.Y. Times 23 Nov. 6/2 Before the practice began fully 1,200 spectators were on the side lines.
1899 A. H. Quinn Pennsylvania Stories 24 The coaches on the side lines were not so jubilant.
1939 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 Sept. 3/3 Enthusiasm ran riot on the sideline at the combined Catholic schools' sports at the Exhibition Oval yesterday as rival colleges cheered their favourites.
1977 Cleethorpes News 27 May 15/2 It was a close game, with plenty of support on the sidelines.
1986 Atlanta Jrnl. 3 July (North Dekalb Extra section) a18/4 (heading) Former soccer mom Wagner learned the game from the sidelines.
1992 N.Y. Times 21 Jan. b9/2 Mark Rypien stepped to the line of scrimmage, called for a timeout and went to the sideline for a brainstorming session with Coach Joe Gibbs.
2013 Perthshire Advertiser 11 Oct. 71/2 Their recently signed striker Richard Doig remains on the sidelines with an ankle injury.
(b) In extended use: a position in which one is observing a situation rather than directly involved in it.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [phrase] > not taking part in action
high and dry1881
sidelines1895
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [noun] > one who takes no part in action > part or position of
sidelines1895
touchline1932
1895 Lawrence (Kansas) Weekly World 12 Dec. 5/2 A few years ago Jake Hole was grazing on the sidelines of journalism and looking seedy.
1919 Northwestern Miller 24 Dec. 1451/2 They [sc. the government] doubt their own ability. They prefer the side lines to the game.
1939 Times 2 Nov. 8/3 The Russian Government were well satisfied with the policy announced by the Supreme Soviet two months ago—standing on the sidelines and watching Germany, England, and France fight out the war.
1974 J. Mann Sticking Place x. 151 I can't sit on the sidelines all my life, producing academic dissertations.
2005 B. Babbitt Cities in Wilderness 9 After..years of observing from the sidelines, I believe the time has come for an armistice.
2. Zoology. = lateral line n. at lateral adj. and n. Compounds. rare.
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the world > animals > amphibians > [noun] > member of (amphibian) > parts of
tarsus1676
lateral line1740
sideline1769
fat-body1868
pylangium1874
urostyle1875
supracoracoid1897
hedonic gland1901
supracleithrum1903
prepubis1931
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 214 In young fish the space above the side line is marked with small black spots.
1835 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 19 210 It differs..from the Platessa felsus, in not having a band of small spines on the side line.
1988 Crustaceana Suppl. 281 This organ resembles in a way the side-line organ of fishes.
3. A rope or strap used for tying together the fore and hind legs on one side of a horse or other animal, in order to restrict its movement. Also more fully sideline hobble.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > hobble or fetter
cubbelc1230
pastern1284
lock1384
langle1394
spannel1398
warlockc1440
curb1477
hough-band1568
foot widdy1569
curble1598
spancel1610
hopple1641
twitchel1689
collaring1692
hobble1744
sideline1803
hog-tie1902
pigging-string1924
1803 W. Taplin Sporting Dict. II. 131 The horse having been previously secured (with hobbles and side-lines).
1831 W. Youatt Horse xviii. 321 When both legs are included in the hobble or rope (as in another way of using the side line).
1891 Jrnl. U.S. Cavalry Assoc. 4 176 When it began to be apparent that the lariat could no longer be depended upon for grazing purposes, the side-line hobble was introduced.
1922 Vet. Med. 17 42/1 The horse should be taken right out into the open and secured with a twitch and single side line.
1995 A. F. Fraser in B. E. Rollin & M. L. Kesel Exper. Animal in Biomedical Res. II. viii. 149 More effective means of controlling kicking by the hindlimbs can be established by use of sidelines and hobbles.
2002 Equus Mar. 79/2 Two-leg hobbles are too restrictive for use during farriery work, but a sideline hobble can be effective.
4. Caribbean. In Guyana: either of two dams forming the side boundaries of an estate or plantation; (also) a trench dug to build such a dam, used for drainage. Also more fully sideline dam, sideline trench, etc.
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1824 in J. Bryant Acct. Insurrection Negro Slaves Demerara 27 He..observed a plank across the trench, a little above the buildings; marched up the side-line in file, with design to pass over it, but it was hauled in by some negroes concealed in the cotton-piece.
1850 ‘B. Premium’ Eight Years in Brit. Guiana 15 At the embouchure of those sideline trenches, a sluice or koker..is erected.
1855 H. G. Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana II. 508 They care not for back or front dams to keep off the water; their side-lines are disregarded, and consequently the drainage is gone.
1876 Sugar Cane 8 411 These drains..issue into what is called a side line or main draining canal. The water from this side line..is discharged through a koker.
1917 Louisiana Planter 21 Apr. 253/2 Immediately adjacent to the side-line dams [in Dutch Guiana], run the two main draining trenches.
1974 M. A. Rauf Indian Village in Guyana 72 Water is drained out by another ‘khokha’..to a side line (drainage canal) which carries the water out to the river.
2010 Combat (Guyana Agricultural & General Workers Union) 31 2/2 The estate did not effectively utilize the excavators on hand to dredge side-lines and facades.
5. Canadian. A rural road running across a concession (concession n. 2b), typically at right angles to a concession road; = side road n. (b) at side n.1 Compounds 3. Now historical and preserved in road names.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > along side boundary of land
side road1691
sideline1831
1831 M. O'Brien Jrnl. 16 Feb. (1968) xvi. 155 The statute labour employed on the Street will then come upon the side lines, that is, the roads leading back across the concessions.
1834 in W. A. Langton Early Days in Upper Canada (1926) 91 The concession lines run N.17 1/2W. and the side lines I am told are not exactly perpendicular.
1896 J. L. Gourlay Hist. Ottawa Valley 34 The concessions and sidelines in these townships were 66 feet wide.
1921 O. D. Skelton Life & Lett. Sir W. Laurier II. 377 Up and down the concession roads and the side-lines of Ontario the whispering campaign..was pushed with vigour.
1997 W. Humber Bowmanville iii. 9 The provision of two two-hundred acre lots within the boundaries of a concession road and sideline.
6. A railway or tramway line extending away from the main line; a branch line. Also: a short length of additional track connected to an adjacent through line; a siding.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > siding
siding1825
sideling1828
sidetrack1828
sideline1831
passing place1841
shunt line1904
lay-by1906
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > forming part of a system > types of
branch line1825
sideline1831
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extension1852
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main trunk1858
loop-line1859
loop1863
spur1878
main1886
spur line1924
1831 St James's Chron. 29 Mar. 3/5 Some workmen belonging to the railway company were employed in making an additional or side-line of railway.
1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. xix. 305 Tarpaulin-covered waggons standing shunted on side lines.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 Oct. 10/1 There remain the South London and the Southwark and Deptford Companies' systems. These, however, are but sidelines west and east.
1915 P. Gibbs Soul of War iii. 52 His train was shunted for hours on to a side line to make way for troop trains.
1940 W. V. T. Clark Ox-bow Incident ii. 62 The railroads had everything but these little sidelines.
2009 P. J. Silvester Story Boogie-Woogie ii. 28 The Santa Fe railroad,..with its side lines branching off to the east and the west, claimed to serve eighty-eight Texas counties.
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1844 G. A. Robinson in V. Rae-Ellis Black Robinson (1988) xxii. 238 [The pass was] a sideline so precipitous, as to require the removal of a wheel and the introduction of a false nave..ere a dray can descend.
1848 H. W. Haygarth Bush Life Austral. xii. 129 The road..shelved off very rapidly towards the precipice, so as to afford little foot-hold for the cattle, and formed, what, in colonial phrase, is called a ‘side-line’.
1850 A. Boswell Jrnl. 26 Mar. in Further Recoll. Early Days in Austral. (1992) 53 On the 18th we rode to the myrtle berries... I never rode up such a steep side line.
8. A generational or evolutionary line which branches off from a main line; a collateral line.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] > branch > younger branch
cadet1690
sideline1868
1868 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1 450 It is much more intelligible to regard it [sc. Eugereon] as part of an extinct side-line, which had a common progenitor with the Hemiptera and Neuroptera.
1883 G. Vigfusson & F. Y. Powell Corpus Poet. Boreale I. 565 His name has also been stuck into the Scioldung lineage (though only in a side line).
1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xii. 266 The sponges thus represent an early side-line in evolution, along which life never developed far.
2009 H. Ooms Imperial Politics & Symbolics Anc. Japan 209 Junnin belonged to a side line through his father Toneri, Kusakabe's half brother.
9. Originally: an auxiliary business activity or line of merchandise. Later also: an activity done in addition to one’s main job to earn extra income.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > auxiliary or minor work
by-work1587
parergon1607
divertment1613
by-employmenta1617
diversion1637
by-service1639
avocation1642
by-business1653
by-job1773
evocation1810
sideline1886
society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > particular class of
line1834
town-made1835
run1861
brand1864
sideline1886
make1909
name brand1944
white goods1947
brown goods1976
positional goods1976
1886 Chariton Democrat 15 Apr. 1/9 (advt.) We make this our exclusive business, and are better prepared to furnish anything in this line, than those who merely handle horses as a side line.
1890 N.Y. Times 9 Mar. 6/7 (advt.) Wanted..Salesman to carry as a side line a new line of advertisement specialties.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier i. 8 Brooker..was a miner by trade, but he and his wife had been keeping shops of various kinds as a side-line all their lives.
1946 Fortune Apr. 200/2 A high-priced Restaurant carrying a sideline of precooked quick-frozen meals on plastic plates.
1966 Listener 13 Jan. 67/3 Few of them managed to make a good living out of their art alone, without running a side-line such as a brewery or an insurance office.
1989 C. Caufield Multiple Exposures (1990) iv. 29 The US Radium corporation was in the prosaic business of painting numerals on wristwatch dials, with a sideline in glow-in-the-dark crucifixes and light pulls.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 12 May (Front section) 20/2 As a sideline, Mr. Jeffries also drove the stunt cars he built.
10. A secondary event or by-product; something that exists or happens in addition to, or as a result of, the main occurrence, process, etc.
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1928 Daily Express 8 Sept. 2/7 One of the most interesting side lines of the Trade Union Congress..has been the conversations between Mr. Arthur Henderson..and the leaders of the..trade unions.
1964 Jrnl. Royal Artillery Sept. 151/2 A useful sideline was that the S.A.S. instructors knew where reliable equipment could be bought at a fairly reasonable price.
1996 Analecta Husserliana 48 539 It is especially one ‘sideline’ of Husserl's theory of evidence I am most interested in: the ideal of [etc.].
2003 Rough Guide to Rock (ed. 3) 587/1 One interesting sideline was that Zep [sc. Led Zeppelin] helped finance the film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
Compounds
attributive and appositive (in sense 9), as sideline business, sideline earnings, sideline product, sideline work, etc.
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1901 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 1 Apr. 1/1 Some of the bosses say the men broke the agreement they made last year not to do any ‘side line’ work after hours.
1935 Manch. Guardian 19 Jan. 11/1 That sort of side-line income is made inevitable by the present remuneration—or lack of it.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential i. iv. 41 In every community girls combine business with pleasure, for a side-line income above and beyond their beanery earnings.
1977 New Yorker 29 Aug. 47/2 His sideline computer-service business thrived.
1979 D. Gageby in J. J. Lee Ireland 1945–70 130 It caused suspicion among journalists whose sideline earnings on correspondence for English or American papers seemed to be threatened.
1994 Impact Oct. 31/1 Chin is doing a little sideline work as well, remixing a track each from The Rheostatics and Barenaked Ladies.
1995 Hongkong Standard 26 Aug. (Financial Review section) 4/2 High quality farm and sideline products increased by a large amount.
2002 Time Out N.Y. 8 Aug. 121/2 He's also had a remarkable sideline career minting duets with a host of inventive instrumentalists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sidelinev.
/ˈsʌɪdlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdˌlaɪn/ 1. transitive. To hobble (a horse or other animal) with a sideline (sideline n. 3).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > hobble
warlocka1400
langlec1440
hopple1586
impester1601
trammel1607
wisp1607
spancel1610
side-hankle1627
sidelanga1642
sidelangle1660
side-span1660
hamshackle1802
hobble1804
twitchel1826
sideline1837
span1847
heel1887
1837 W. Irving Rocky Mts. I. ii. 36 The horses were ‘side lined’, as it is termed: that is to say, the fore and hind foot on the same side of the animal were tied together, so as to be within eighteen inches of each other.
1863 [see sidelining n. at Derivatives]. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy x. 151 We hobbled every horse and side-lined certain leaders.
1922 E. Hough Covered Wagon xiii. 92 The mules, hobbled and side-lined as Jed had shown her, turned face to the wind.
1999 T. C. Johnstone Cries from Earth xix. 174 As an additional precaution, the wary Wilmot had side-lined the twelve animals for the night.
2. transitive. To mark (a passage of text) for special attention by drawing a line or lines in the margin. Sometimes: spec. to mark (matter to be suppressed) in this way; to censor. Also with the book or text as object.
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society > communication > printing > printers' symbols and directions > [verb (transitive)] > mark with marginal line
sideline1903
1903 W. G. Collingwood Ruskin Relics xiii. 198 His father's Bible..was used by him in later times, and side-lined vigorously; all the blank spaces are scribbled over with the thoughts that came as he read.
1947 A. Caldecott Not exactly Ghosts 212 She said that she'd side-lined a passage that might interest you.
1978 Observer 10 Dec. 1/7 The all-party committee..is expected to exercise traditional discretion in ‘sidelining’ or censoring Cabinet minutes.
2001 S. Croft Eng. Lit. iii. 62 If you are studying the text for a closed book exam it can be useful to annotate your text using marginal notes or underlining or sidelining important sections.
3. Originally U.S. To put on the sidelines (literal and figurative).
a. transitive. Sport. Esp. of an injury: to prevent (a sportsperson) from playing in a game or team. Cf. bench v.1 3d.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > put out of competition
eliminate1865
to put out1890
sideline1913
1913 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos-Reporter 16 Oct. 9/7 Pruett, regular tackle, was side-lined because of injuries.
1947 News–Age–Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) 20 July 1 b/7 Charley Keller..is recovering..from an operation to relieve the back ailment that has sidelined him for several weeks.
1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 16/7 Brad Selwood, rookie Leaf defenceman, was sidelined after stopping a shot with his right hand in the second period.
1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 Sept. 36/1 (headline) Coach threatened to sideline Boys.
1999 N. Varley Parklife (2000) 103 Andy became a utility player, covering when injuries or suspension sidelined the expert defenders or midfielders.
2015 Bristol Post (Nexis) 9 Feb. 46 Now fully recovered from the hip injury that sidelined him for six weeks, Wilbraham entered the fray as a 73rd-minute substitute.
b. transitive. In extended use. Of an illness or injury: to prevent (a person) from carrying on normal work or activity; to put out of action. Frequently in passive.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > render unable [verb (transitive)] > disable and put out of action
sideline1952
1952 Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Mich.) 5 Nov. 5/2 Sen. Ferguson campaigned for the GOP ticket.., bird-dogging President Truman on his whistle-stop tour, before being side-lined by illness.
1975 Amer. Speech 1972 47 143 Although polio cruelly limited her for many years to the use of one arm, Betty Adler was never sidelined.
2010 L. W. Andrews Encycl. Depression II. 310 The pain [of migraines] can be excruciating, sidelining the sufferer for hours or even days at a time.
c. transitive. To remove (a thing or person) from the centre of activity or attention; to place in a less important or influential position; to marginalize.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (transitive)] > make less important or unimportant
to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303
mincea1591
to make no matter of1604
triflea1616
to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)1632
pygmy1658
insignificate1676
minify1676
smooth1684
trivialize1846
nonentitize1903
minoritize1947
sideline1953
peripheralize1955
marginalize1970
marginate1970
deprioritize1973
1953 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 28 May 19/5 The commissioners had been studying the voting machine question for the county, but had sidelined the idea because of the expense involved.
1973 H. Gruppe Truxton Cipher (1974) xx. 218 He even persuaded the brass to put him in charge of the special project... The Navy was glad to do it. Sideline him for a bit.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 8 Feb. 12/3 There have been fears that English literature was being sidelined.
2012 New Yorker 23 Apr. 50/2 Marriage sidelined her ambitions.
4. intransitive. To engage in an additional activity or occupation, typically to earn extra income. Usually with in or as.
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society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work at subsidiary occupation
sideline1931
society > leisure > sport > match or competition > take part in match or competition [verb (intransitive)] > engage in subsidiary sport
sideline1931
1931 Bakersfield Californian 31 Mar. 19/3 He was a boy scoutmaster who sidelined in teaching sign language to the deaf and dumb.
1944 College Topics (Univ. Virginia) 30 Mar. 3 Captain Nat Boyd is specializing in the hurdles and broad jumping and sidelining in the high jump.
1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch xv. 147 The kingpin in town was a back-porch country lawyer who..sidelined in real estate.
1995 Healing Arts Apr. 9/1 Many practitioners sideline—these are tough times we live in—and may be diversifying or working hard at an adjunctive therapy or discipline to help support the family.
2009 A. D. Sison in J. Lyden Routledge Comp. Relig. & Film x. 182 The dashing hustler Mike, a rent-a-car driver who sidelines as a gigolo.
Derivatives
ˈsidelined adj. that has been sidelined; (esp.) out of action; away from the centre of activity or attention; on the sidelines.
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1892 Jrnl. U.S. Cavalry Assoc. 5 146 The thieving redskin, bent on ‘stampeding’ the side-lined herd.
1942 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 26 Sept. 4/2 Bill Cottrell..has been added to the list of sidelined players on the Badger squad.
1966 Kiplinger's Personal Finance Mag. Jan. 21/2 The sidelined aircraft are still fresh and young—obsolete before their time.
1995 ‘J. le Carré’ Our Game (1996) 176 Side-lined passages. Angry marginal scrawls, illegible in the ailing light.
2014 Sunday Times (Nexis) 2 Mar. 50 The years in which England's Elizabeth I grew from a sidelined princess into a ruthless monarch.
ˈsidelining n. the action of sideline v. (in various senses); an instance of this.
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1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies I. 154 ‘Sidelining’ is tying the fore and hind legs on the same side.
1902 Bk. Lover Jan. 485/1 Charles Lamb..had that incorrigible habit of side-lining and commentarizing in his beloved quartos.
1906 Pract. Druggist June 412/2 ‘Talk about profitable..side-lining,’ said a well-known druggist.., ‘the grocery line offers the most enticing field that can be found.’
1957 Princeton Alumni Weekly 4 Oct. 13/1 Caldwell's sidelining due to a ‘lingering, low-grade infection’.
1984 R. J. Neuhaus Naked Public Square 99 Some might say..‘religion reporting’ as a specialty reflects an upgrading... I believe, it represents a sidelining of religion.
2009 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 25 May We are appalled at..the sidelining of the reality of women's poverty, unemployment and social exclusion.
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