equinoctial line
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Called also the equinoctial line, or simply the line, being an imaginary circle round the earth, dividing the globe into two equal parts, and equally distant from both poles.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
We ran for five days, always coming towards the equinoctial line, where the air and sea became more temperate.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Bartolom? de las Casas
They thought there was nothing south of the equinoctial line but an immense sea and some poor and barren islands.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Albion Ober
In this way he reached the territory on the equinoctial line, where are now Puerto Viejo and Manta.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
The two first stars named are exactly on what is called the equinoctial line.
From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Roger Thompson Finlay
