Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physical geography, a line drawn through a number of rivers at points where they have falls or rapids due to a common cause; specifically, a line of this character in the eastern United States, near the inner border of the Atlantic coastal plain, passing through Trenton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, etc.
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Examples
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"We're just gonna ski fall-line here," he assures me early in the day, as I stare down at a 38-degree pitch peppered with not insubstantial boulders.
Heli-Skiing in Nevada's Ruby Mountains Andrew McCarthy 2011
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Great tracts of wilderness separated communities beyond the fall-line of the rivers.
Union and Democracy Allen Johnson 1900
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From the tidewater, with its large plantations worked by African slaves, the cultivation of cotton passed into the region above the fall-line of the rivers, where the small farmer practiced a diversified agriculture.
Union and Democracy Allen Johnson 1900
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In colonial America this inner edge coincided with the "fall-line" of the
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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Gladiator, roughly 1,200 vertical feet of steep, fall-line skiing reminiscent of Highland
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And then, one by one, we jumped into Gladiator, roughly 1,200 vertical feet of steep, fall-line skiing reminiscent of Highland Bowl's Y Zones in epic condition.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Bob Ward Aspen Times Weekly Aspen 2010
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Today, the resort boasts some of the longest fall-line cruisers in the country, backcountry skiing in Taynton Bowl and the biggest freestyle terrain park in the Rockies.
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And then, one by one, we jumped into Gladiator, roughly 1,200 vertical feet of steep, fall-line skiing reminiscent of Highland Bowl's Y Zones in epic condition.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Bob Ward Aspen Times Weekly Aspen 2010
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Rather, from the angle of the up-track, bring your skis perpendicular to the fall-line (critical if you are waxing) then kick-turn bringing the uphill ski nearly 180 degrees around, then follow through with the second ski moving from the hip.
Vail Daily - Top Stories Donny Shefchik Backcountry Turns Val 2010
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Gladiator, roughly 1,200 vertical feet of steep, fall-line skiing reminiscent of Highland
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By BOB WARD special to the daily 2010
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