Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The straight line of a crow's flight. See crow-flight.

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Examples

  • Disregarding the shipping routes that others had followed, Brown mapped out a crow-line course from St. John’s, aiming for the middle of Galway Bay in Ireland and landing very near to the town of Clifden.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Disregarding the shipping routes that others had followed, Brown mapped out a crow-line course from St. John’s, aiming for the middle of Galway Bay in Ireland and landing very near to the town of Clifden.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Disregarding the shipping routes that others had followed, Brown mapped out a crow-line course from St. John’s, aiming for the middle of Galway Bay in Ireland and landing very near to the town of Clifden.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

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