load line
Also called Plimsoll line. any of various lines marked on the sides of a cargo vessel to indicate the depth to which a vessel may be immersed under certain conditions.: Compare freeboard (def. 1a).
the line made by the surface of the water on the hull of a loaded ship.
Origin of load line
1Words Nearby load line
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use load line in a sentence
The dimensions of the Columbia are: Length on mean load line, 412 feet; beam, 58 feet.
This steamer, she had dry decks till her load line was altered.
The Sea and the Jungle | H. M. TomlinsonLoad-line, line painted on the outside of a vessel to mark the extreme of immersion in loading her with a cargo.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia | Edited by Rev. James WoodIt is somewhere, then, between her light-water load-line and her bilge.
The Sea Lions | James Fenimore Cooper
British Dictionary definitions for load line
nautical a pattern of lines painted on the hull of a ship, approximately midway between the bow and the stern, indicating the various levels that the waterline should reach if the ship is properly loaded under given circumstances
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse