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light line

American  

noun

Nautical.
  1. the line or level to which a ship or boat sinks when fully supplied with fuel and ballast but without cargo.


Etymology

Origin of light line

First recorded in 1890–95


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The former include arrangement, color and symbol, composition, juxtaposition, light, line, multimodality, and point of view.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Crappie are fair off lighted piers in the evening using minnows and light line.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 22, 2020

Madam appeared to be channelling a ghostly robot, her weirdly absent monotone killing every light line.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2011

Prior to this, jig fishermen temporarily attached the heavy jigheads with light line, copper wire or rubber bands that broke away once a fish was hooked.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now and then he connected points, or put in a light line.

From The Flaming Mountain by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

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