level line

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Thomas said all seats have an indicator: It might be a level line or a level bubble on the carrier itself or on the carrier base.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2022

Place the top tile edge on the level line and press the tile into place, peeling off the remaining backing as you go.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2022

In so stiffly a level line had they passed that a profane thought seized her unawares: the fancy that the rector of St. Antipas had been pulled by the window on rollers.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon

A level line, 1500 ft. long, drawn from its bottom, comes out to grade on the north declivity of the table-land.

From The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170 by Campbell, J. L.

Also, the level line on which any work stands, as the foot of a pillar.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir