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Meanings of Plimsoll line in English

Catalan
escora

Waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded.

        escora
        Portuguese
        linha plimsoll
        Spanish
        marca de plimsoll

        Special marking that indicates the draft of the ship and the legal limit to which a ship may be loaded for specific water types and temperatures in order to safely maintain buoyancy.

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              linha plimsoll
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              Examples for "load line"
              Examples for "load line"
              1
              Clip your second locking biner onto the load line (or climber's rope) and the bight in the hitch closest to the climber's rope.
              Climbing Magazine
              2
              The foreman has filled out a sample ticket with car number, date, load line, initials of sampler and any other notations necessary-suchas leakages, etc.
              Deep Furrows
              3
              Skag saw a powerful elephant coming back alongside the loaded line.
              Son of Power
              4
              Slide this "tractor" down the loaded line as far as you can reach.
              Climbing Magazine
              5
              Visit Website Slide this "tractor" down the loaded line as far as you can reach.
              Climbing Magazine
              1
              Sank below Plimsoll mark-likea sieve.
              My Tropic Isle
              2
              There was no Plimsoll mark in those days, and this cockle-shell of a vessel was literally loaded down to the scuppers.
              The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
              3
              "She was loaded to the Plimsoll mark when she passed us," Torry said.
              Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats
              4
              "I say, Mr. Second Mate," he said, "I don't see the Plimsoll Mark on the funnel.
              The Wheel O' Fortune
              5
              "Who painted out those Plimsoll marks?"
              The Firm of Girdlestone
              1
              The sailors' saviour was one Samuel Plimsoll, born in Bristol in 1824.
              The Irish Times
              2
              To vary the figure, this essay dips its Plimsoll-mark full under.
              Mince Pie
              3
              The incident occurred on State Highway 2 near Plimsoll Street.
              Radio NZ
              4
              Mr. Plimsoll, after he had lived for some time among the poor, on 7s.
              Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
              5
              Mr. Plimsoll thereupon prepared to take his leave.
              Windjammers and Sea Tramps
              Usage of Plimsoll line in English
              1
              And then come in the PLIMSOLL line
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917
              Translations for Plimsoll line
              Catalan
              escora
              Portuguese
              linha plimsoll