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Composed of or containing straight lines; having the form of a straight line; rectilinear.
1571. Digges, Pantom., I. Elem., B j b. Of straight lined angles there are three kindes.
1656. trans. Hobbes’ Elem. Philos. (1839), 120. A strait-lined triangle.
1673. Flamsteed, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 171. He was pleased to shew me a straight-lined projection for finding the hour by inspection.
1764. Dodsley, Leasowes, in Shenstone’s Wks. (1777), II. 309. Now we turn upon a sudden into a long strait-lined walk in the wood.
1801. Farmer’s Mag., April, 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, Nat. Philos., 115. They conducted water across hills and vallies by straight-lined ducts.
1898. A. Browne, in Daily News, 10 March, 6/3. Across this opaque covering a straight-lined scratch is made with a needle or knife.
