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Water line
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Noun
- 1 The outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water.
- 2 a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship wordnet
- 3 Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines.
- 4 a line marking the level reached by a body of water wordnet
- 5 Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded.
"The water line is to that Bend or place she should swim in when she is loaded."
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- 6 The line corresponding to the surface of the water touching any submerged object or body.
"Not far away, off our weather bow, there was a little iceberg which had such a queerness about it that the captain and three men went in a boat to look at it. The ice was mighty clear ice, and you could see almost through it, and right inside of it, not more than three feet above the water-line, and about two feet, or maybe twenty inches, inside the ice, was a whopping big shark, about fourteen feet long,—a regular man-eater,—frozen in there hard and fast."
- 7 The level at which water meets land along the shore of a body of water.
"Little creeks ran into [the river] in the wet season, but now their dry mouths hung clear above water-line."
- 8 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, line.
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