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▪ I. ˈside-line, n.
[side n.1]
1. a. A line extending along or towards one side of a thing or space; spec. in Football and other sports: a line marking the edge of the playing area at the side; a touch-line. Also, the area immediately outside this. Also fig. with allusion to the position of a spectator observing but removed from the action of a game, esp. in phr. on or from the sidelines.
1768Pennant Brit. Zool. (1776) III. 226 In young fish the space above the side line is marked with small black spots. 1862Chambers's Encycl. IV. 413/2 Two side-lines, called goal-lines, are drawn from each of the goals. 1886J. Dwight Lawn-Tennis ii. i. 41 He may play down the side-line or he may lob. 1899H. A. Quinn Pennsylvania Stories 24 The coaches on the side lines were not so jubilant. 1962[see bye n. 1 c]. 1977Cleethorpes News 27 May 15/2 It was a close game, with plenty of support on the sidelines.
fig.1934Webster, Side-line... The standpoint of those not immediately participating. 1939Times 2 Nov. 8/3 The Russian Government were well satisfied with the policy announced by the Supreme Soviet two months ago—standing on the sidelines and watching Germany, England, and France fight out the war. 1954T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk i. 18 But as you're here, Eggers, I can just relax. I'm going to enjoy the game from the side⁓lines. 1974J. Mann Sticking Place x. 151, I can't sit on the sidelines all my life, producing academic dissertations.
attrib.1908Westm. Gaz. 15 June 9/1 (Tennis), Barrett scored many aces by clean side-line drives.
b. A railway or tramway line extending away from the main line.
1890Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) II. xxix. 62 Livingstone is..the junction for the little side-line that takes you to the Yellowstone National Park. 1898Westm. Gaz. 4 Oct. 10/1 There remain the South London and the Southwark and Deptford Companies' systems. These, however, are but sidelines west and east.
c. Canad. = side road (b) s.v. side n.1 27.
1834in W. A. Langton Early Days in Upper Canada (1926) 91 The concession lines run N.17 1/2W. and the side lines I am told are not exactly perpendicular. 1896J. L. Gourlay Hist. Ottawa Valley 34 The concessions and sidelines in these townships were 66 feet wide.
2. A line used for securing an animal by tying together the fore and hind leg on one side.
1831Youatt Horse xviii. 320 The side-line is a very simple and useful method of confining the horse. Ibid. 321 When both legs are included in the hobble or rope (as in another way of using the side line).
3. An auxiliary line of goods, trade, or occupation.
1890New York Tribune 9 Mar. (Cent.), Wanted..Sales⁓man to carry as a side-line a new line of advertisement specialty. 1898Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 5/3 In the cycling trade the agents..are exercised in their minds over the question of ‘side lines’. They want something to do in the dull season. 1937‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier i. 8 Brooker..was a miner by trade, but he and his wife had been keeping shops of various kinds as a side-line all their lives. 1966Listener 13 Jan. 67/3 Few of them managed to make a good living out of their art alone, without running a side-line such as a brewery or an insurance office. 1977New Yorker 29 Aug. 47/2 His sideline computer-service business thrived. 1979D. Gageby in J. J. Lee Ireland 1945–70 130 It caused suspicion among journalists whose sideline earnings on correspondence for English or American papers seemed to be threatened.
▪ II. ˈside-line, v.
[f. the n.]
I. trans.
1. To secure (cattle or horses) with a side-line.
1837W. Irving Rocky Mountains I. ii. 36 The horses were ‘side lined’, as it is termed: that is to say, the fore and hind foot on the same side of the animal were tied together, so as to be within eighteen inches of each other. 1863Pilgr. over Prairies I. 154 After unharnessing and sidelining our cattle (‘sidelining’ is tying the fore and hind legs on the same side within eighteen or twenty inches of each other). a1904A. Adams Log Cowboy x. 151 We hobbled every horse and side-lined certain leaders.
2. pass. (or as ppl. a.) Of a sportsman: to be forced to remain out of competition on the side-lines, esp. through injury. Also fig. Occas. actively, of an injury, etc. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1945Sun (Baltimore) 30 June 8/2 Snead is once more sidelined with his back ailment. 1947News–Age–Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) 20 July 1b/7 Charley Keller..is recovering..from an operation to relieve the back ailment that has sidelined him for several weeks. 1949Cavalier Daily (Univ. of Virginia) 22 Oct. 1/5 Gene Schroeder, still side-lined with a shoulder injury. 1966N.Y. Times (Internat. ed.) 22 Apr. 12/8 Buckpasser..is sidelined with a hoof injury. 1970[see defenceman s.v. defence n. 9]. 1975Amer. Speech 1972 XLVII. 143 Although polio cruelly limited her for many years to the use of one arm, Betty Adler was never sidelined. 1977Daily Express 29 Jan. 38/4 Ian Wallace and Mick Ferguson, their first-choice front men who have been side-lined for the last six weeks.
3. To mark (a passage of text) for special attention by a line or lines drawn in the margin; spec. (of confidential matter) to indicate that it should not be printed or published.
1968Guardian 24 July 8/1 The..witnesses had been encouraged to speak freely with the assurance that they would be allowed to ‘sideline’ those parts of the evidence that they did not wish to see published. 1978Observer 10 Dec. 1/7 The all-party committee..is expected to exercise traditional discretion in ‘sidelining’ or censoring Cabinet minutes.
4. fig. To remove from the centre of activity or attention; to place in an inferior position.
1973H. Gruppe Truxton Cipher (1974) xx. 218 He even persuaded the brass to put him in charge of the special project... The Navy was glad to do it. Sideline him for a bit. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 10/2 President Nixon vetoed the legislation in 1971, and since then, a lack of congressional and Administration support has sidelined the Mondale approach.
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5. intr. To engage in as a subsidiary occupation or sport.
1944College Topics (Univ. of Virginia) 30 Mar. 3 Captain Nat Boyd is specializing in the hurdles and broad jumping and sidelining in the high jump. 1975B. Garfield Hopscotch xv. 147 The kingpin in town was a back-porch country lawyer who..sidelined in real estate. |