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sideline Hist.

• 1a n. the line marking the side boundary of a concession (def. 2) and running at right angles to the concession line (def. 1).

  See also: concession (def. 2)  concession line (def. 1)  

  • 1834  (1926)  The concession lines run N.171 /2W. and the side lines I am told are not exactly perpendicular.
  • 1836  The following petitions were read: . . . of Thomas Fleming, of Charles Williams and twenty-seven others, inhabitants of the first concession . . . Township of Hallowell . . . pray thing that certain sidelines may be surveyed.

• 1b n. the side boundary of a lot.

  • 1852  (1923)  We sat down to rest ourselves before commencing the operation of "blazing," or marking the trees with our axes, along the side-line of my lot.

• 2 n. in Ontario, a road built along the side boundaries of a concession (def. 2) at right angles to a concession road.

  See also: side-road (def. 2)  

  • 1887  . . . we missed the lane leading to the Colonel's house, and turned into a side line where a wheel came off the buggy. . . .
  • 1896  The concessions and sidelines in these townships were 66 feet wide. The plan was to plant a post in the centre of the road and one on each side 33 feet from it. These were the corner posts. Then 120 rods from these three more posts were driven into the ground dividing the first double lot of 200 acres from the next, and so it proceeded throughout.
  • 1909  Another [school] was in the south-west corner of the sideline and the fourth concession south of Embro. . . .