tapeline

Example Sentences

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At last he stopped, and took a tapeline from his pocket.

From The Face and the Mask by Barr, Robert

If at 60 inches, measured with a tapeline from your eye to the book, then your eye number is 60, which is remarkably good.

From Woodland Tales by Seton, Ernest Thompson

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 Nichols, Henry Hobart

These facts Tom ascertained with the use of a small tapeline which he carried in his pocket.

From Around the World in Ten Days by Fraser, Chelsea Curtis

What consolation radiated from her thimble, what encouragement even in the sight of her tapeline!

From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli