straight-linedadj.
Composed of or containing straight lines; having the form of a straight line; rectilinear.
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?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. Defs. sig. B j v Of straight lined angles there are three kindes.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xvii. 186 The straight-lined triangle.
1673 J. Flamsteed Let. 27 Dec. in Corr. (1995) I. 273 Hee was pleased to shew mee a streight lined projection for findeing the hour by Inspection.
1764 R. Dodsley Leasowes in W. Shenstone Wks. (1777) II. 300 Now we turn upon a sudden into a long strait-lined walk in the wood.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 129 Measuring off from a straight lined hedge,..he takes one length of the poles for the half or crown of the first ridge.
1808 J. Webster Elem. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 115 They conducted water across hills and vallies by straight-lined ducts.
1898 A. Browne in Daily News 10 Mar. 6/3 Across this opaque covering a straight-lined scratch is made with a needle or knife.
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