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rumbowline

rumbowline is the alternative form of rombowline.

Meaning of rombowline

Noun

rombowline (uncountable)

  1. Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
    • It has probably been destroyed altogether, but Rome is a great place for treasuring rubbish and rombowline, and perhaps the old keyboard still exists, with stacks of wooden and metal pipes and bundles of worm- eaten trackers, all piled up together and forgotten in some corner of the crypt, or in...1909, F. Marion Crawford, chapter XX, in Stradella: An Old Italian Love Tale, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 348

Forms of rumbowline

pluralrumbowlines

Questions about rumbowline

What is rumbowline the alternative form of?
Rumbowline is the alternative form of rombowline.

Words near rumbowline in the dictionary

  1. rumblings
  2. rumbly
  3. rumbo
  4. rumbooze
  5. Rumbos
  6. rumbowline
  7. rumbowlines
  8. rumbud
  9. rumbuds
  10. Rumbula
  11. rumbullion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rumbowline (page history and authors); rombowline (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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