equinoctial line

American  

noun

1. celestial equator.

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Etymology

Origin of equinoctial line

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Such rivers abounded from the equinoctial line to the Gulf of St. Michael.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

In December, 1499, in June of which year Ojeda and Vespucci had set out together, Vicente Pinzon sailed along the Brazilian coast to a point eight degrees south of the equinoctial line.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion

They thought there was nothing south of the equinoctial line but an immense sea and some poor and barren islands.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion

When we had sailed for 300 leagues, being 3� to the south of the equinoctial line, a land was sighted 130 at a distance of twenty-two leagues, at which we were astonished.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

Crossing the equinoctial line, Our Artist discovers that the rays of a vertical sun are anything but bracing and cool.

From Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868 by Carleton, George W.