ruleredadj.
/ˈruːləd/, U.S. /ˈrulərd/ Drawn or appearing to be drawn with a ruler; very straight. Also: (of a page) ruled.
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1915 ‘B. Cable’ Between Lines 121 The companies have fallen in and stand in straight rulered ranks.
1952 L. MacNeice Ten Burnt Offerings 50 Steam is a dry word; the best word is water... Best in the East..on the rulered page of a Moghul garden—Cool marrow of marble spines.
1988 R. Powers Prisoner's Dilemma iv. 82 Dad's father's idea of a clean and ordered world required only that the boy maintain rulered sideburns and hang his pressed pair of Sunday pants upside down in big wooden cuff-clamps.
2006 B. Fer in J. Weiss Dan Flavin 35 The rulered lines are drawn over in softer, shorter pencil strokes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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