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DEW Line Dewline [Distant Early Warning Line] 
a 3,000-mile network of radar stations and airstrips for interceptor aircraft, extending from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Baffin Island and intended for defence against attack by air.
See also: Distant Early Warning Line
- 1957 Some thought the just-finished Dewline and nearly all the rest of our defense apparatus had become obsolete.
- 1965 Conditions are even worse now than in the early '50s, when there was heavy air traffic to the DEW Line, Ungava and other regions.
- 1957 Some thought the just-finished Dewline and nearly all the rest of our defense apparatus had become obsolete.