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• Line

  ·noun Flax; linen. II. Line ·noun A trench or rampart. III. Line ·noun Instruction; doctrine. IV....

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• line

  To get a man into a line, i.e. to divert his attention by a ridiculous or absurd story. To humbug. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• line

  The general appellation of a number of small ropes in a ship, as buntlines, clue-lines, bowlines, &c...

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• line of line

  See gunter's line. ...

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• Air line

  ·add. ·- A path through the air made easy for aerial navigation by steady winds. ...

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• Bee line

  ·- The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with hone...

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• Date line

  ·add. ·- The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreeme...

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• Drag line

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Drag rope. ...

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• Gunter's line

  ·- A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numb...

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• Line-up

  ·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Lineup>>. ...

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• Pipe line

  ·add. ·- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, ·esp. petroleum,...

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• Pipe-line

  ·add. ·vt To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines. ...

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• Side line

  ·add. ·- A line pert. or attached to the side of a thing. II. Side line ·add. ·- A secondary road; ...

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• Spurling-line

  ·noun The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale. ...

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• Stream line

  ·add. ·- The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like. ...

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• Up-line

  ·noun A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the ...

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• Vortex line

  ·add. ·- A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of ...

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• Water line

  ·- Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at v...

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• black-line

  See Black-War. ...

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• snow-line

  n. In pastoralists' language of NewZealand, «above the snow-line» is land covered by snow inwinter,...

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• to line bees

  is to track wild bees to their homes in the woods. One who follows this occupation is called a bee h...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bee-line

  To take a bee-line, is to take the most direct or straight way from one point to another. Bees in re...

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• base-line

  In strategy, the line joining the various points of a base of operations. In surveying, the base on ...

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• beam-line

  A line raised along the inside of the ship fore and aft, showing the upper sides of the beams at her...

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• bearding-line

  In ship-building, is a curved line made by bearding the dead-wood to the shape of the ship's body. ...

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• breadth line

  A curved line of the ship lengthwise, intersecting the timbers at their greatest extent from the mid...

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• cant-line

  Synonymous with girt-line, as to cant the top over the lowermast-head. ...

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• cod-line

  An eighteen-thread line. ...

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• concluding-line

  A small rope hitched to the middle of the steps of the stern-ladders. Also, a small line leading thr...

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• cont-line

  The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side. ...

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• counter-line

  A word often used for contravallation. ...

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• cut-line

  The space between the bilges of two casks stowed end to end. ...

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• fancy-line

  A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a down-haul. Also, a line used for cross-...

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• furling-line

  Denotes a generally flat cord called a gasket. In bad weather, with a weak crew, the top-sail is bro...

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• gant-line

  Synonymous with girt-line (which see). ...

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• gaub-line

  A rope leading from the martingale in-board. The same as back-rope. ...

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• girt-line

  A whip purchase, consisting of a rope passing through a single block on the head of a lower mast to ...

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• gob-line

  See gaub-line. ...

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• gunter's line

  Called also the line of numbers, and the line of lines, is placed upon scales and sectors, and named...

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• hambro'-line

  See hamber ...

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• hand-line

  A line bent to the hand-lead, measured at certain intervals with what are called marks and deeps fro...

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• hauling-line

  A line made fast to any object, to be hauled nearer or on board, as a hawser, a spar, &c. ...

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• house-line

  See housing ...

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• indented line

  In fortification, a connected line of works composed of faces which offer a continued series of alte...

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• lead-line

  A line attached to the upper end of the sounding-lead. (See hand-line and deep-sea line.) ...

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• line, to

  To cover one piece with another. Also, to mark out the work on a floor for determining the shape of ...

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• line-breadth

  See breadth line. ...

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• log-line and log-ship

  A small line about 100 fathoms long, fastened to the log-ship by means of two legs, one of which pas...

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• margin line

  A line or edge parallel to the upper side of the wing transom, and just below it, where the butts of...

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• measuring line

  The old term for the first meridian reckoned off from a ship's longitude. Also, the five-fathom line...

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• navel line

  See line. ...

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• par-line

  A term signifying the normal level of a barometer for a given station, or the mean pressure between ...

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• reef-line

  Casual aids in bad weather to help the men at the earings. When the vessel was going free, and the s...

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• smiting-line

  A line by which a yarn-stoppered sail is loosed, without sending men aloft. If well executed, marks ...

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• sounding-line

  This line, with a plummet, is mentioned by Lucilius; and was the sund-gyrd of the Anglo-Saxons. ...

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• spurling-line

  The line which formed the communication between the wheel and the tell-tale: it went round a small b...

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• tow-line

  [Anglo-Saxon toh-line]. A small hawser or warp used to move a ship from one part of a harbour or roa...

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• tricing-line

  A small cord, generally passing through a block or thimble, and used to hoist up any object to rende...

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• trigger-line

  A line by which the gun is fired. ...

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• tripping-line

  A small rope serving to unrig the lower top-gallant yard-arm of its lift and brace, when in the act ...

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• twiddling-line

  A piece of small rope ornamentally fitted and used for steadying the steering-wheel when required: n...

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• water-line

  In former ships of war, a fine white painted line or bend, representing the deep line of flotation, ...

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• Old Line State

  ·add. ·- Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's ...

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• apsides, line of

  The imaginary line joining the aphelion and perihelion points in the orbit of a planet. ...

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• collimation, line of

  The optical axis of a telescope, or an imaginary line passing through the centre of the tube. ...

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• cutting-down line

  An elliptical curve line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships; it determines the depth of...

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• deep-sea line

  Usually a strong and water-laid line. It is used with a lead of 28 lbs., and adapted to find bottom ...

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• ebb, line of

  The sea-line of beach left dry by the tide. ...

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• forming the line

  See line. ...

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• great-line fishing

  That carried on over the deeper banks of the ocean. (See line-fishing.) It is more applicable to han...

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• light water-line

  The line showing the depression of the ship's body in the water when just launched, or quite unladen...

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• line of battle

  A disposition of the fleet at the moment of engagement, by signal or previous order, on which occasi...

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• line of bearing

  A previously determined bearing given out by a commander-in-chief, as well as line-of-battle. "From ...

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• line of collimation

  See collimation, line of. ...

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• line of defence

  In fortification, the face of a work receiving flank defence, together with its prolongation to the ...

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• line of demarcation

  A line which is drawn by consent, to ascertain the limits of territories belonging to different powe...

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• line of nodes

  The imaginary line joining the ascending and descending nodes of the orbit of a planet or comet. ...

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• line of operations

  In strategy, the line an army follows to attain its objective point. ...

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• line out stuff

  To mark timber for dressing to shape. ...

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• load water-line

  The draught of water exhibited when the ship is properly loaded; in a word, her proper displacement,...

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• toe a line!

  The order to stand in a row. ...

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• water-line model

  The same as key-model (which see). ...

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• line-of-battle ships

  Formerly those of 74 guns and upwards; or in these iron days, any vessel capable of giving and takin...

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• line-of-metal elevation

  That which the axis of a gun has above the object when its line of metal is pointed on the latter; i...

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• unrove his life-line

  Departed this life. ...

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• wind and water line

  That part of a ship lying at the surface of the water which is alternately wet and dry by the motion...

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• line of the old author

  A dram of brandy. ...

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• forerunners of the log-line

  A small piece of red bunting laid into that line at a certain distance from the log, the space betwe...

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• stray line of the log

  About 10 or 12 fathoms of line left unmarked next the log-ship, in order that it may get out of the ...

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• stripped to the girt-line

  All the standing-rigging and furniture having been cleared off the masts in the course of dismantlin...

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