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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The number of lines of printed or written material.
  • noun Payment for written work at a specified amount per line.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of lineage.
  • noun Lining; arrangement in line.
  • noun In printing:
  • noun The quantity of matter estimated in lines.
  • noun Payment or rate of payment by the line.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See lineage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of lineage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the number of lines in a piece of printed material
  • noun a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

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