linern.1
/ˈlʌɪnə/, U.S. /ˈlaɪnər/ 1. One who lines or fits a lining to anything.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > lining > one who
liner1611
the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > provision with > one who
liner1611
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Foderáro,..a liner.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 78 Furrier, Working... Liner.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 74 Straw Hat and Bonnet Making:..Liner.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Sept. 7/2 William Glover, a bucket liner, was thrown forward and struck among the girders.
1903 N.E.D. at Liner Mod. Advt., Mantle finishers and liners wanted.
2. Mechanics. Something which serves as a lining.
a. An inside cylinder, or a vessel placed inside another.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > washer or liner
washer1346
gasket1828
babbitting1851
bush1865
hat leather1869
liner1886
space washer1934
O-ring1954
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 2/1 The gun has a thin liner put in from the breech, extending over the powder-chamber..it is advisable to have thin liners, which can be easily taken out.
1887 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing (1892) 58 A is the cast-iron casing or barrel of the pump; B is a brass liner fitting tightly into the former at its ends.
1894 Times 28 Feb. 6/6 The trial had to be abandoned owing to the heating of the eccentric strap of the port low-pressure engine and the destruction of the brass liner.
b. A thin slip of metal, etc. placed between two parts to adjust them; a shim.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > washer or liner > metal slip adjusting plates
shim1860
liner1869
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding x. 181 On account of the edge-strips being worked inside the plates, liners had to be fitted at each frame.
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 114 Wide liners are fitted between the bulkhead frames and bottom plating.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 237 The barrels are bored up within three inches of the muzzle with a fine-boring bit, using a spill and liners.
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c. A slab on which pieces of marble, etc. are fastened for grinding or polishing (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
3. The lining of a garment, esp. one made of an artificial fibre. So liner suit (see quot. 1969).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > lining
lining1401
interline?1577
underlining1580
body lining1676
buggy1890
liner1947
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > other
frilly1900
opera top1921
liner suit1969
1947 Horizon Sept. 203 They took off their helmet liners.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics xiii. 517 The inner liner of the suit is of neoprene-coated fabric... The outer liner is an aluminized coverall.
1969 Guardian 7 Jan. 7/2 There is an undergarment called a liner suit which makes PVCs more comfortable to wear. It is a two-piece affair made from knitted nylon with the inside of cosy brushed cotton.
1970 Washington Post 30 Sept. B5/3 (advt.) Zip-in-or-out orlon liner.
1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face 241 4-oz. Dunloprufe nylon with open-cell foam liner.
1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face 242 1 pair overmits [made of] proofed nylon with Borg fur liner.
4. In full, liner note. (See quot. 1953.) originally U.S.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > text accompanying
liner note1953
sleeve-note1956
sleeve information1966
1953 Britannica Bk. of Year 638/1 Liner, the text accompanying an album of gramophone records.
1955 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) Jan. 41 The covers of these new jazz albums..are being covered..with thousands and thousands of words known as ‘liner notes’.
1960 D. Cerulli et al. Jazz Word (1962) 106 They couldn't come up with any less information than on some liners today.
1968 Jazz Monthly Feb. 21/2 The enthusiastic sleeve-notes by Brian Rust suggests that he may be on the downward path towards acceptance of those degenerate swing bands whom he has damned in nearly all his liner writing!
1969 Rolling Stone 17 May 17/3 As Coleman observes in the liner notes, ‘Ornette Denardo is hard to keep up with if you don't tell him what to do.’
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d. Packaging.
(a) Any paper or board intended as the outer surface of a composite board, esp. corrugated cardboard. See also linerboard n. originally U.S.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > other types of paper
India paper1721
whitey-brown1761
hot press1807
splash-paper1811
India proof1812
India paper proof1814
crinkled paper1820
pattern paper1849
powder paper1856
sheathing1859
chartaline1880
lining paper1880
Whatman1880
greaseproof paper1894
papyroxylin1894
shelf paper1895
corrugated paper1897
construction paper1902
Ingres paper1910
liner1921
cartolina1936
wood-free1966
1921 Paper 5 Jan. 12/3 You are experiencing trouble trying to water-proof container liner with a furnish of kraft pulp.
1940 J. Leeming Mod. Export Packing 87 The different strengths of the liners or facing sheets used in corrugated fiberboard.
1951 W. H. De Montmorency in J. N. Stephenson Pulp & Paper Manuf. II. 103 Two liners are separated by the corrugated medium and held to it by an adhesive applied at the points of contact.
1960 W. F. Friedman & J. J. Kipnees Industr. Packaging ii. 71 Facings or liners as they are more commonly called, are relatively heavy, coarse paperboard usually of kraft or jute material.
1983 F. A. Paine & H. Y. Paine Handbk. Food Packaging v. 147 Different grades and types of board can be produced by varying the materials, the thickness and weight of the liners and the fluting medium.
1990 S. Sonsino Packaging Design iii. 107/1 The multi-ply boards known as duplex boards are made from wood pulp surfaced with a bleached kraft liner.
(b) An inner container, of impermeable material, separating a container from its contents.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > inner or outer
outer1920
liner1921
1921 C. C. Martin Export Packing xx. 552 The shoes..are packed in a waterproof liner made of two layers of heavy paper with a thin coating of waterproof substance between the layers.
1948 Packaging & Display Encycl. 119 All screw closures require liners to form a leak-resistant seal between the..closure and the..glass.
1950 Packaging & Display Encycl. (ed. 2) 382/1 (caption) A case returned by the War Office..after nine months on the Normandy Beaches. The contents were found to be in perfect condition due to the use of the war-type double impermeable case liner.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIII. 856/1 More than half the polythene is used in film form and much is converted into shrink film, liners, sacks, and bags.
1981 in W. Stern Handbk. Package Design Res. xxxi. 337/2 A system design that would automatically form a lightweight thermoformable plastic barrier liner inside a folding carton.
e. Any removable lining, esp. one designed to protect a container from its contents or to allow their easy removal. Usually with function explained or implied by the context: cf. bin-liner n. at bin n. Compounds, nappy liner n. at nappy n.3 Compounds 2.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining
underlining1580
shirt1640
lining1713
inlayer1868
liner1959
1959 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 409/3 Diaper liners... Disposable paper liner... Protects diapers and reduces laundry problems.
1966 Amer. City June 100/2 Each resident received three plastic liners and wire twists.
1966 Amer. City June 100/2 The instructions told them how to place the liners in their cans, how to gather them at the top when full..and how to remove secured liners..and carry them to the street on collection day.
1974 P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird (1975) iii. 36 A garbage bag, one of those polyethylene liners for refuse cans.
1977 P. Leach Baby & Child ii. 85/1 A liner is only effective if you put it next to the baby's skin.
1984 Gainesville (Florida) Sun 27 Mar. 7 a/4 (advt.) Kotex Lightday pantyliners.
1988 Washington Post 21 Feb. 10/2 A manufacturer will insert the liners with the patented wetness indicators into a production run of otherwise normal disposable diapers.
1990 M. Dibdin Vendetta (1991) 209 There was the washbasin, the rack for glasses below the mirror and the dud bulb above, the metal rubbish bin with its plastic liner, the barred window lying open into the room.
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linern.2
/ˈlʌɪnə/, U.S. /ˈlaɪnər/ I. Of persons.
1. Scottish. An official whose duty is the tracing of the boundaries of properties in burghs.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > determination of boundary > beating bounds > one who beats or determines
liner14..
bounder1570
bounderer1610
marcher1635
meresman1828
demarcator1898
bound-beater1909
14.. Burgh Laws cv. (Sc. Stat. I) Þe saidis lyneris sall suer þat þai sall leilly lyne in lenth as braidnes baith foir part and back part of þe land according to þe richt and auld merchis withyn þe burgh.
1461 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 139 Thir ar the lynnoris to serf the burgh of Pebillis: + Wylyem Bulle, Rychart Cant [etc.].
1541 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 453 It was fundyn and determynit be the lynaris anence the debatis betuex Iohne Henrisone Culane..and Iohn Nachty, twcheing thair landis liand in the Gastraw [etc.].
1894 K. Hewat Little Sc. World i. 20 The Liner has still important duties to perform in tracing the boundaries of properties.
2. One whose business it is to paint lines on the wheels, etc. of carriages. Also liner-out.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun] > painter
painter1240
painter-stainer1502
liner1819
1819 Post Office London Directory 299 Salmon, Thos., Springer and Liner, King-street, Clerkenwell.
1884 Birmingham Daily Post 28 July 3/3 Carriage-painters.—Wanted, two good Liners~out and Varnishers.
3. A writer of miscellaneous items for the newspapers, which are paid for at so much per line. (Cf. penny-a-liner n.)
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > penny-a-liner
creeper1824
penny-a-liner1832
liner1861
1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter II. xix. 87 Because now and then a liner is found in the gutter, it doesn't do to cry shame on every man that wields a pen.
1865 Reader 20 May 567/1 The account in the New York World of the pursuit and capture of Booth is by a prince amongst liners.
4. One who ‘lines’ a tree. (Cf. quot. 1890 at line v.2 2.)
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1880 Lumberman's Gaz. Jan. 28 The scorers and liner fell the trees and roughly trim the two opposite sides.
5. = linesman n. 1.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > permanent or regular
bonagh1600
regular1747
reg'lar1777
linesman1856
liner1870
1870 Daily News 27 Sept. Such troops are less likely to commit excesses in a conquered town than regular liners.
II. Of things.† 6. (See quot.) Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > other tools and equipment
pollhache1324
poleaxe1356
muckrake1366
pestlea1382
botea1450
staff1459
press-board1558
reel1593
water crane1658
lathekin1659
tower1662
dressing hook1683
liner1683
hovel1686
flax-brake1688
nipper1688
horse1728
tap1797
feather-stick1824
bow1839
safety belt1840
economizer1841
throttle damper1849
cleat1854
leg brace1857
bark-peeler1862
pugging screw1862
nail driver1863
spool1864
turntable1865
ovate1872
tension bar1879
icebreaker1881
spreader1881
toucher1881
window pole1888
mushroom head1890
rat1894
slackline1896
auger1897
latch hook1900
thimble1901
horse1904
pipe jack1909
mulcher1910
hand plate1911
splashguard1917
cheese-cutter1927
airbrasive1945
impactor1945
fogger1946
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 93 The Liner is..a thin Plate of Iron or Brass..that being applied to the Face of a Punch, or other piece of Work, it may shew whether it be straight or no.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 145 He examins by applying the Lyner to that side of the Body, and holding it so up between his Eye and the Light, tries whether or not [t]he Lyner ride upon the part that was extuberant.
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a. (See quot. 1886.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > brush > types of
pencila1350
calaber pencil1583
washing-brush1585
softener1756
hair-pencil1763
camel('s) hair pencil1771
pound brush1780
dabberc1790
varnishing brush1825
writer1825
red sable1859
sweetener1859
varnish brush1859
fitch1873
sable-brush1873
wash-brush1873
Poona brush1875
hake1882
rigger1883
airbrush1884
liner1886
sable1891
stippler1891
aerograph1898
mop brush1904
filbert brush1950
1886 Mrs. Sharp-Ayres Mirror Painting Introd. 4 Take a very fine brush, called a liner, dip it in the colour, and go over the traced outline of the water lily.
b. A cosmetic used for tinting a part of the face; a brush or pencil for applying this; spec. = eyeliner n. Compounds.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > for the eyes > liner
eye pencil1878
liner1926
eyeliner1929
1926 M. Smith Bk. Play Production xi. 182 Liners are smaller sticks of grease paints..used to make lines on the face, such as wrinkles, ‘eyebrows’, etc.
1958 J. Osborne & A. Creighton Epit. for George Dillon ii. 44 I always touch mine up with a brown liner... The rings under my eyes.
1966 Harper's Bazaar Sept. 70/1 Wrapping up lid, indeed eye, in a cocoon of pale grey shadow and liner.
1972 Daily Tel. 24 Jan. 11/1 A narrower streak of colour on the lid by the lashes, in place of liner.
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a. A vessel (now usually a steam-ship) belonging to a ‘line’ of packets (see line n.2 22).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > vessel belonging to specific line
liner1838
boat1841
1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. v All they got to do is, to up Hudson like a shot..and home in a liner, and write a book.
1851 C. Kingsley Yeast v. 96 The railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph.
1885 Manch. Examiner 21 May 4/7 If the bar was silted up 3 ft. it absolutely prohibited large Atlantic liners from entering Liverpool.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 1 The big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing fleet.
b. A line-of-battle ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > battleship
line-of-battle ship1695
battleship1794
liner1829
dreadnought1906
battle-wagon1926
1829 W. N. Glascock Sailors & Saints I. ii. 25 We liners, you know, are not in the habit of leading small craft to their anchorage.
1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 270/2 Not an hour was lost in expediting the fitting out of our liner, for war was raging.
1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products
1859 G. A. Lawrence Sword & Gown xvii. 228 A huge ‘liner’, with English colours at the main...close on the enemy's quarter.
1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 602 There was..a fleet in commission of three liners and three or four frigates.
1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady 147 The huge liners of the hostile fleet.
1864 Times 17 Oct. Wooden liners had become universally acknowledged as useless to compete with ironclad frigates.
c. One of the aircraft of a regular line, esp. one for passenger transport; an air-liner; a space-ship.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun]
astronaut1880
spaceship1880
liner1905
space flyer1911
rocket ship1925
space vehicle1928
spacecraft1929
ship1930
spacer1942
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft for goods or passengers
liner1905
tramp1905
airliner1908
taxi1909
taxi plane1909
air ferry1916
air freighter1919
passenger plane1919
air taxi1920
freighter1920
flying boxcar1932
ferry1939
shuttle plane1944
day coach1945
feeder liner1946
charter1959
night coach1959
1905 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions (1909) 125 A Planet liner, east bound, heaves up in a superb spiral and takes the air of us humming.
1919 H. Golding Wonder Bk. Aircraft 69 (caption) Off! The pilot of the ‘liner’ is just giving orders to remove the blocks from the wheels of the under-carriage.
1933 Boys' Mag. 47 24/1 Mile after mile of seemingly endless country unfurled itself beneath the flying wings of the giant liner.
1951 A. C. Clarke Sands of Mars iii. 24 The observation gallery..completely circled the liner.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 230/3 These well-known liners were conceived with the future needs of the air lines in view.
1969 New Scientist 2 Oct. 20/2 The Boeing liner will have rather more than twice the capacity of the Concorde.
d. One of a fleet of lorries.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry > one of a fleet of
liner1955
1955 Times 29 June 13/3 The commission have offered the trunk service vehicles, which provide regular daily services between certain towns..‘liner’ services, compared with ‘tramps’,..in relatively large lots together with their respective terminal depôts.
9. A boat engaged in sea-fishing with lines.
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1901 Scotsman 4 Mar. 6/2 The want of herring bait is handicapping the steam liners who are working the cod and ling fishing.
10. Sport. (? U.S.)
a. Baseball. A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground.
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1874 H. Chadwick Base Ball Man. 55 A ‘line ball’ or ‘liner’ is a ball sent swiftly from the bat to the field almost on a horizontal line.
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b. A ball, marble, or other object that rests on a traced line ( Cent. Dict.).
11. colloquial. A picture hung ‘on the line’ at an exhibition (see line n.2 11c).
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1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. x. 114 The work..in due time made its appearance in Trafalgar Square, where it was amongst the fortunate ‘liners’.
12. ‘A threshed sheaf of corn’ ( W. Cornwall Gloss. 1880).
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1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 110v As the threshing lout, Rusheth his Lyners out, So Lyner on his course rusheth.
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liner train n. a fast through-running freight train made up of detachable containers on permanently coupled wagons.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > goods train > types of
way freight1867
tank-train1901
red ball1906
manifest1912
liner train1962
unit train1962
freightliner1965
1962 Guardian 30 Oct. 3/2 ‘Custom built’ services..so that customers can..‘buy space’ on fixed formation trains—‘liner trains’—whose wagons can..bear their name and line of business.
1963 Reshaping of Brit. Railways (Brit. Railways Board) 142 The description ‘Liner Train’ is applied to a conception of transport based upon joint use of road and rail for door-to-door transport of containerised merchandise, with special purpose, through-running, scheduled trains providing the trunk haul... The Liner Train..is a train of chassis which will remain continuously coupled... The speed will be a maximum of 75 and an average of 50 miles an hour.
1964 Observer 28 June 8/5 If Dr. Beeching's figures are accepted at their face value, the cost of carrying goods by liner trains will be so much less than by heavy lorries..that he should be able to undercut the roads by a comfortable margin.
1970 Daily Mail 16 Feb. 1/6 The plant sends rear axles and brake drums by liner trains to other Ford factories.
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A ferret attached to a line, used in rabbiting.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > rabbits > with ferrets
ferreting1575
liner1902
1902 A. Niblett in W. Carnegie et al. Ferrets & Ferreting (ed. 3) vi. 46 One of your ferrets should always be a good liner, and a good line ferret possesses qualifications which are actually detrimental in the others.
1946 W. Thomas Rabbit Shooting to Ferrets iii. 19 Let us assume that you have purchased a strong, steady hob as liner and a couple of carefully selected jills in whelp.
1966 Punch 13 July 82/2 This ‘liner’ disappeared into the same hole, spaced knots on the string recording his descent.
1979 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 10–16 May 19/3 A good liner will home in on a rabbit and either bolt it or kill it.
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Originally: an advertisement occupying a line of print. Hence more generally, with preceding numeral: something occupying a specified number of lines (of print, etc.). See also one-liner n. (a) at one adj., n., and pron. Compounds 4.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun] > an advertisement
ad1799
advt.1801
advert1814
liner1901
advertorial1914
message1925
advertique1968
infomercial1981
society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > space available for or occupied by print > occupying specified number of lines
liner1901
1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Oct. 5/2 A valuable fur collar, which was advertised in yesterday's Colonist, was restored to its owner before noon, thus showing the prompt returns received from the use of Colonist ‘liners’.
1904 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Weekly 2 Jan. 18/1 There were headings—one-liners and two-liners.
1974 P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird (1975) v. 65 Those two-liners in down-home newspapers.
1983 Austral. Personal Computer Oct. 114/1 This short two liner lists a cassette file to the screen on an Atari.
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