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 Seely, Herman Gastrell

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 Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

Upon the original outline were then drawn all such details as coping stones, chimneys, trapdoors, etc., the tapeline being used where necessary to establish positions.

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

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

From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli

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