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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. ...

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to line
To fish with a line. So, to seine, i. e. to fish with a seine. I have never seen these words used ex...

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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...

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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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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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