Meanings of Plimsoll in English

The sailors' saviour was one Samuel Plimsoll, born in Bristol in 1824.

To vary the figure, this essay dips its Plimsoll-mark full under.

The incident occurred on State Highway 2 near Plimsoll Street.

Mr. Plimsoll, after he had lived for some time among the poor, on 7s.

Mr. Plimsoll thereupon prepared to take his leave.

Sank below Plimsoll mark-likea sieve.

Samuel Plimsoll, Our Seamen, cheap edition, London, 1870, p. 110.

There was no Plimsoll mark in those days, and this cockle-shell of a vessel was literally loaded down to the scuppers.

It is the same psychology which fifty or so years ago, before Samuel Plimsoll uplifted his voice, sent overloaded ships to sea.

Sweetness and light would never have interfered with the slave trade, or fiercely fought beside Plimsoll for the load-line on the sides of ships.

So they chaps they said they wouldn't go to be drownded in winter-dependingupon that 'ere Plimsoll man to see 'em through the court.

The boy was wearing a pair of white canvas shorts, and rubber-soled plimsolls.

Plimsoll Productions on its way for Filming Documentary on Marion Island Leaving CPT harbour.

Her fluffy plimsolls were stained gray-blue with alien blood.

White plimsolls with a tread that was thick enough to belong on a jungle boot.

And then come in the PLIMSOLL line