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liner

noun as in cruise ship

noun as in line drive

noun as in lining

noun as in ocean liner

noun as in vessel

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It will become the sixth passenger liner in the company's cruise fleet.

From BBC

The doomed liner left from Southampton but called in at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown - now known as Cobh - in Ireland, before setting out across the Atlantic.

From BBC

In Game 3, the Dodgers had Bill North on third when Davey Lopes hit a hard liner that Nettles grabbed to save a run.

Freeman was forced to test his ankle in the first inning when his liner struck the angled part of the wall down the left field line and bounced past oncoming Yankees outfielder Alex Verdugo.

But the perfecto would not have been possible without the stout defense of third baseman Andy Carey, who got enough of his glove on Jackie Robinson’s second-inning smash to deflect the ball to shortstop Gil McDougald, who threw to first for the out, and caught a Gil Hodges low liner to his left about an inch above the ground in the eighth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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