Definition of "broken line" []

• The straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "It was not till 1142 that the Orthodox continued their broken line by electing Arsenios II, who like most"
• "Then it heads off more or less north through the Brecks, past Wretham and Blackrabbit Warren, until it seems to fizzle out a mile beyond a little wood called Shaker’s Furze among a cluster of tumuli on Sparrow Hill, only to pick up its thread after miles of dull arable fields in a broken line running past Swaffham to the west."