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Lines
Were used for measuring and dividing land; and hence the word came to denote a portion or inheritanc...

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lines
The reins, or that part of the bridle which extends from the horse's head to the hands of the driver...

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Fraunhofer lines
·- The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so call...

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Nobert's lines
·add. ·- Fine lines ruled on glass in a series of groups of different closeness of line, and used to...

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Zollner's lines
·add. ·- Parallel lines that are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersec...

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artificial lines
The ingenious contrivances for representing logarithmic sines and tangents, so useful in navigation,...

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bow-lines
In ship-building, longitudinal curves representing the ship's fore-body cut in a vertical section. ...

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buttock-lines
In ship-building, the longitudinal curves at the rounding part of the after body in a vertical secti...

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checking-lines
These are rove through thimbles at the eyes of the top-mast and top-gallant rigging, one end bent to...

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clothes-lines
A complete system of parallel lines, hoisted between the main and mizen masts twice a week to dry th...

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clue-lines
Are for the same purpose as clue-garnets, only that the latter term is solely appropriated to the co...

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continued lines
In field-works, means a succession of fronts without any interruption, save the necessary passages; ...

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crane-lines
Those which formerly went from the spritsail-topmast to the middle of the fore-stay, serving to stea...

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leech-lines
Ropes fastened to the leeches of the main-sail, fore-sail, and cross-jack, communicating with blocks...

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level-lines
Lines determining the shape of a ship's body horizontally, or square from the middle line of the shi...

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life-lines
Stretched from gun to gun, and about the upper deck in bad weather, to prevent the men being washed ...

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slab-lines
Small ropes passing up abaft a ship's main-sail or fore-sail, led through blocks attached to the tre...

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spider-lines
A most ingenious substitution of a spider's long threads for wires in micrometer scales, intended fo...

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spilling lines
Ropes contrived to keep the sails from blowing away when they are clued up, being rove before the sa...

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yoke-lines
The ropes by which the boat's steerage is managed. ...

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bunt slab-lines
Reeve through a block on the slings of the yard or under the top, and pass abaft the sail, making fa...

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circumvallation, lines of
Intrenchments thrown up by a besieging army, outside itself, and round the besieged place, but front...

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contravallation, lines of
Continuous lines of intrenchment round the besieged fortress, and fronting towards it, to guard agai...

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hammock gant-lines
Lines extended from the jib-boom end around the ship, triced up to the lower yard-arms, for drying s...

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horizontal ribband lines
A term given by shipwrights to those lines, or occult ribbands, by which the cant-timbers are laid o...

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lines of flotation
Those horizontal marks supposed to be described by the surface of the water on the bottom of a ship,...

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lucky minie's lines
The long stems of the sea-plant Chorda filum. ...

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