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+ ==Etymology==

+ Formed [[af|en|dead|line]].^(Etymonline)^(RHWU) The sense “time limit” is recorded by 1919 in American newspaper jargon, specifically the last moment at which copy could be sent to the printer.^(Etymonline) It was perhaps influenced by an earlier sense (1864): the line in American Civil War prisons that prisoners were forbidden to cross, as at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.^(Etymonline) Wiktionary notes that the evidence for this connection is only indirect,^(Wiktionary) and that earlier uses, according to the OED, refer to lines that do not move, such as in angling.^(Wiktionary)

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