light line
English edit
Etymology edit
From light (“lacking weight”, adjective) + line (noun).
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: lītʹlīn
Noun edit
light line (plural light lines)
- (nautical) The waterline at which a vessel floats when at light displacement; the light waterline.
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:light line.
Related terms edit
- load line (noun)
References edit
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William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “light-line”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.