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Plimsoll

noun

Waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded. Synonyms: load line, Plimsoll line, Plimsoll mark.

A light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top.

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"Plimsoll" Quotes from Famous Books

... India at its fullest. Almost everything else could be reproduced elsewhere—the palaces, the bazaars, the caravans, the mosques and temples with their worshippers—but not the jungle, the Himalayas, the vast swamps through which our elephants waded up to the Plimsoll, the almost too painful ecstasies of the pursuit of ...

— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas

... stock of water-casks were carefully overhauled and recoopered prior to being stowed in their places below. Of course, we had plenty of room in the hold, since no ship would carry herself full of casks of oil; but I doubt whether, if we had borne a "Plimsoll's mark," it would not have been totally submerged, so deep did we lie. Wooding and watering came next—a different affair to our casual exercises in those directions before. Provision had to be made now for a possible four or five months' passage, during ...

— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen

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