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TOUCHLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does touchline mean? 

TOUCHLINE (noun)
  The noun TOUCHLINE has 1 sense:

1. either of the sidelines in soccer or rugbyplay

  Familiarity information: TOUCHLINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOUCHLINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of the sidelines in soccer or rugby

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("touchline" is a kind of...):

out of bounds; sideline (a line that marks the side boundary of a playing field)


 Context examples 


There’s Moorhouse, first reserve, but he is trained as a half, and he always edges right in on to the scrum instead of keeping out on the touchline.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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