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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.