tapeline
Example Sentences
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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
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 Henry Hobart Nichols
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
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 Ernest Thompson Seton
At last he stopped, and took a tapeline from his pocket.
From The Face and the Mask by Robert Barr
