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loop-line - definition and meaning
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun a railway line that branches from the trunk line and then rejoins it at another point.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a railway branch line that branches from the trunk line and then rejoins it later on
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Bussoleno, 30½ m. from Modane, whence a loop-line of 5 m. extends to
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
E. by loop-line from the station St. Auban on the main line.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
From Bourg a loop-line traverses a picturesque country by Nantua to Geneva, 97 m.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
S.W. from Arvant, commences the loop-line of the Chemins de Fer du Midi, which traverses the lofty woodless highlands of Lozère, the coal-region of Aveyron, and the wine and olive department of Herault to Beziers on the Mediterranean line, between Cette and Narbonne.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
The little railway by the sea was only a loop-line that connected Skeaton with Lane-on-Sea,
The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912
For it is along this loop-line of "memories and ideas of the distant" that poetry wins its generalizing or universalizing power.
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
They discard, as far as possible, the long "loop-line " of previous experience.
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
Station, or Bournemouth East as it was then called, was built, and the two stations connected by a loop-line .
Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch Sidney Heath 1907
The hemisphere, _H_, adds the long circuit or loop-line through which the current may pass when for any reason the direct line is not used.
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
It is possible, certainly, as the experiments of contemporary "imagists" prove, to write poetry of a certain type without employing the "loop-line ."
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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