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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

Example Sentences

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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

Pass the tag end of the light line back down through the loop.

From Time Magazine Archive

A light line was attached to a bridle, and the mark lowered over the stern, where it rode, bobbing in the tail of the schooner's wake, thirty fathoms from the taffrail where the crowd gathered.

From A Man to His Mate by Mulford, Stockton

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