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plain lining

plain lining is the present participle and gerund of plain line.

Meaning of plain line

Verb

plain line (third-person singular simple present plain lines, present participle plain lining, simple past and past participle plain lined)

  1. to remove points and crossovers from a stretch of track.

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Questions about plain lining

What is plain lining the present participle and gerund of?
Plain lining is the present participle and gerund of plain line.

Words near plain lining in the dictionary

  1. plain leaf warbler
  2. plain leaf warblers
  3. plain line
  4. plain lined
  5. plain lines
  6. plain lining
  7. plain loaf
  8. plain loaves
  9. plain meaning rule
  10. plain meaning rules
  11. Plain of Esdraelon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plain lining (page history and authors); plain line (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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