tapeline
Example Sentences
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I'll borrow dad's big tapeline to measure off the other bases, and the grand stand can go here.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely
"Let's get father's tapeline and measure it," said Frank.
From Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) by Francis W. (Francis Wayland) Parker
In the earlier work the lines of the walls, so far as they could be determined, were run with a compass and tapeline and gone over with a level.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
The doctor noted the positions of the three empty sockets and, drawing a tapeline from his pocket, proceeded to measure the distances from each of the three—they were widely separated round the circle—from each other.
From The Blind Spot by Austin Hall
Either the two lads had measured or counted wrong in their advance with the tapeline or, as Phil concluded, the distance was only approximate.
From The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
