tapeline
Example Sentences
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What consolation radiated from her thimble, what encouragement even in the sight of her tapeline!
From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli
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
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 Chelsea Curtis Fraser
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
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
