Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Air-line

signifies (in the United States) the most direct and shortest possible route between two given places, as the Eastern and Western Air-line Railway.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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