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Broken line

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(Geom.) the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order.

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He called for a sally, and rushed out, revolver in hand, upon the broken line.
A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
It gave the low circle of hills round Gloucester Harbour, Ten Pound Island, the fish-sheds, with the broken line of house-roofs, and each spar and buoy on the water, in blinding photographs that came and went a dozen times to the minute as the "We're Here" crawled in on half-flood, and the whistling-buoy moaned and mourned behind her.
Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
On the side of the Green that led towards the church, the broken line of thatched cottages was continued nearly to the churchyard gate; but on the opposite northwestern side, there was nothing to obstruct the view of gently swelling meadow, and wooded valley, and dark masses of distant hill.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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