load line
NOUN
waterline on ship
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Load-line, line painted on the outside of a vessel to mark the extreme of immersion in loading her with a cargo.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin