- a variation of lubber's line.
lubber line
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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We found the lubber line particularly clear for night use.
From Time Magazine Archive
At night, the big lubber line is easy to use, although the light is brighter than ideal.
From Time Magazine Archive
At night, the battery light was even, with little flaring, but the thin lubber line was hard to resolve.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'd have to leave the wheel to get a fix on the lubber line.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were hanging to a lubber line near the quarterdeck, which on the chaser was a part of the after deck having imaginary boundaries only, established by order of the chaser's commander.
From Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
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