Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of chowline English)
WordNet
n. a queue of people waiting for food to be served (especially at a military camp)
Usage examples of "chow line".
He'd been at me a couple times and I'd brushed him off, but on the third day out from Bremerhaven he caught me in the chow line that wandered up and down the gray-painted corridors of the ship.
So I got up and shaved and showered and we hit the chow line for half a dozen shell eggs and sundries such as potatoes and ham and hot cakes and so forth and then we hit dirt to get something to eat.
As the rumor that he was gay had spread, he'd been getting more and more harassment--shipmates banging into him in the passageways or the chow line, apparently by accident but hard.
Otter was supposed to go to early chow, show up in line the moment the chow line opened.