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load line
noun as in waterline on ship
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The dimensions of the Columbia are: Length on mean load line, 412 feet; beam, 58 feet.
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This steamer, she had dry decks till her load line was altered.
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Load-line, line painted on the outside of a vessel to mark the extreme of immersion in loading her with a cargo.
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It is somewhere, then, between her light-water load-line and her bilge.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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