line-out

line-out
/luyn"owt'/, n. Rugby.
a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
[1885-90; n. use of v. phrase line out to form a line, line up]

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