feeder line

1. 1.

   a branching path off of a main transportation line (especially an airline)

   Broaderpath

Questions about feeder line

What does feeder line mean?

feeder line means "a branching path off of a main transportation line (especially an airline)".

Is feeder line a common word?

feeder line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.