"clear one's lines" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clears one's lines",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clearing one's lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleared one's lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleared one's lines",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "clear one's lines"
      },
      "expansion": "clear one's lines (third-person singular simple present clears one's lines, present participle clearing one's lines, simple past and past participle cleared one's lines)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clear the ball away from a dangerous position."
      ],
      "id": "en-clear_one's_lines-en-verb-2tGiOM7A",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "clear",
          "clear"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, idiomatic) To clear the ball away from a dangerous position."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clear one's lines"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clears one's lines",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clearing one's lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleared one's lines",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleared one's lines",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "clear one's lines"
      },
      "expansion": "clear one's lines (third-person singular simple present clears one's lines, present participle clearing one's lines, simple past and past participle cleared one's lines)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clear the ball away from a dangerous position."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "clear",
          "clear"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, idiomatic) To clear the ball away from a dangerous position."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clear one's lines"
}