lubber line
noun
a mark on a ship's compass that designates the fore-and-aft axis of the vessel: Also called: lubber's line
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How to use lubber line in a sentence
While he had winked his eyes, so it seemed to him, the true course had fairly straddled away from the lubber line.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayNow go to your compass and see that its lubber line is exactly fore and aft and in the keel line of the ship.
Lectures in Navigation | Ernest Gallaudet Draper
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