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Meanings of Plimsoll in English

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

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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
        And then come in the PLIMSOLL line
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917
        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
        Usage of Plimsoll in English
        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
        6
        Sank below Plimsoll mark-likea sieve.
        My Tropic Isle
        7
        Samuel Plimsoll, Our Seamen, cheap edition, London, 1870, p. 110.
        Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
        8
        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
        9
        It is the same psychology which fifty or so years ago, before Samuel Plimsoll uplifted his voice, sent overloaded ships to sea.
        Notes on Life & Letters
        10
        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.
        The Glory of English Prose / Letters to My Grandson
        11
        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 Nigger Of The "Narcissus": A Tale Of The Forecastle
        12
        The boy was wearing a pair of white canvas shorts, and rubber-soled plimsolls.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        13
        Plimsoll Productions on its way for Filming Documentary on Marion Island Leaving CPT harbour.
        The South African
        14
        Her fluffy plimsolls were stained gray-blue with alien blood.
        The evolutionary void
        15
        White plimsolls with a tread that was thick enough to belong on a jungle boot.
        The Naked God
        16
        And then come in the PLIMSOLL line
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for Plimsoll
        Catalan
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        Plimsoll through the time