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nouna bus or rail route covering only a limited distance. Origin of short lineFirst recorded in 1850–55 Words nearby short lineshortish, short jenny, short-laid, shortleaf pine, short leg, short line, short list, short-lived, short loin, shortly, short metre Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for short lineThe position of the short-line railroad in our rail transport debacle is even worse than that of his bigger brothers. Our Railroads To-Morrow|Edward Hungerford Furnivall prints this in long lines with internal rime, which of itself seems to form the short-line stanza from the long lines. English Verse|Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D. The short-line distance between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers lies entirely within the state of Missouri. Railroads: Rates and Regulations|William Z. Ripley Each appears to be naturally tributary to some one of the seaports by a dominant or short-line route. Railroads: Rates and Regulations|William Z. Ripley
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