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sky-line
[sky n.1]
1. a. The line where earth and sky meet; the horizon. Also, the representation of this in painting or another art.
1824Scott St. Ronan's I. iv. 84 Some boy's daubing, I suppose... Eh! What..is this?.. Who can this be?.. Do but see the sky-line—why, this is.. an exquisite little bit. 1849Lytton Caxtons III. xiv. ii. 10 Seeing only the roof of that palace boldly breaking the sky-line, how serene your contemplations! 1860G. H. K. Vac. Tour 126 The blue hare..running up hill, and seating himself on the sky-line. 1871G. J. Whyte-Melville Sarchedon 23 The sun was sinking..behind the level sky-line of the desert. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 384. I see two lumps of land on the sky-line.
b. The outline or silhouette of a building or number of buildings or other objects seen against the sky.
1896G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 10 Oct. 386/2 A tall and beautiful figure, rising like a delicate spire above a skyline of city chimney-pots. 1928Daily Mail Year Bk. 48/1 A traveller returning to the metropolis after some years' absence has difficulty in recognising some of our famous streets; the sky-line is different, salients have disappeared. 1932News Chron. 5 July 9/5 The city's skyline of roofs was silhouetted against a blaze of gold. 1962Economist 27 Oct. 347/1 The decision to free London from the sixty-year-old 100-foot ceiling which cramped ground space and deadened the skyline. 1971P. Gresswell Environment 230 Consideration of skylines should be one of the prerequisites of planning.
2. Forestry. An overhead cable for the transport of logs.
1925A. Philip Crimson West 144 Preparing the spar⁓tree for ‘high-lead’ or ‘sky-line’ rigging, is the most spectacular and thrilling performance in the logging industry. 1942R. L. Haig-Brown Timber 254 In the case of a yarder the sky line is the same as the main-line, going from the spar tree through a block attached to a tree stump at the back of the setting. 1958W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 168 Perhaps the first skyline in the Northwest was rigged by Bob Barr at the Bridal Veil Lumber Company in Oregon in 1899. 1963Press (Vancouver) Apr. 9 There's where the donkeys puff and strain As they pull the logs on the road And the skyline moans, as if in pain As it bears its heavy load.
Hence ˈskylined ppl. a., visible or silhouetted on the skyline.
1946G. Millar Horned Pigeon ii. 33 We heard trucks behind us. When we dropped flat we saw them sky-lined. 1969‘J. Fraser’ Cock-pit of Roses xvi. 126 Out past the hedge you'll be sky-lined, flashing like neon. 1978L. Heren Growing up on The Times v. 170 The bear was briefly skylined on another false crest, and I fired..and finally killed it. |