[Vocabulary] what's the meaning of this phrase "lined right away over the..."?

[pinki91]

hey guys,
I have a vocabulary problem in this context:

We're standing in the pouring rain off the side of a road squelching with mud and lined right away over the plain to the far skyline with the inevitable double row of poplars.


It's a story, that describes a war, and a new chapter begins with mentioned sentence,
It's confusing,
specially this part: "lined right away over the plain to the far skyline"

Can anybody please help me find this sentence out?

 

[Johnyxxx]

He means this.

http://venetianred.files.wordpress....nee28094a-road-lined-with-poplars-kashmir.jpg

The long road is lined with two rows of poplars and stretches over a plain (a landscape with no hills) to the far horizon (far skyline).

 

[Engaging English]

"Lined" as in "stood" is the meaning here.

 

[Tarheel]

hey guys,
I have a vocabulary problem in this context:

We're standing in the pouring rain off the side of a road squelching with mud and lined right away over the plain to the far skyline with the inevitable double row of poplars.


It's a story, that describes a war, and a new chapter begins with mentioned sentence,
It's confusing,
specially this part: "lined right away over the plain to the far skyline"

Can anybody please help me understand this sentence?

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

I agree with Engaging English.

There may be lines of poplars along the side of the road, but the road isn't lined with them. Lined means covering a surface or forming a layer.

I think that the people (soldiers?) are lined up all the way to the horizon, which is where the poplars are.

 

[bhaisahab]

The road is lined with poplars on both sides, as far as the horizon.

 

[MikeNewYork]

"Lined" as in "stood" is the meaning here.

Well, not really. You could not say the road was "stood with poplars". The poplars lined the road.