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Date "Bee-Line" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references)

Specialty Definition: BEE-LINE

Domain Definition
Literature 1: "Our footmarks, seen afterwards, showed that we had steered a bee-line to the brig."- Kane: Arctic Explorations, vol. i. chap. xvii. p. 198.
2: Bee-line The line that a bee, takes in making for the hive; the shortest distance between two given points. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Common Expressions: BEE-LINE

Expressions Definition
Bee-Line Bus System The Bee-Line Bus System is a system of buses serving Westchester County, New York. The system is owned by the county's Department of Transportation and operated by Liberty Lines Transit, Inc. Fifty-five thousand (55,000) people ride on the system daily. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: BEE-LINE

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Bee-Line Bus System 38     Bee-Line Bus System 38

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