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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

This land is within the Torrid Zone, and beyond the equinoctial line on the south side, over which the Pole rises from the meridian 5�, beyond every climate.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

Though within the tropic zone, and but a few degrees from the equinoctial line, there is chillness in the air of the night, now nearing its mid-hours.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne

It is true that the sun has very great power there, for the country is distant only twenty-six degrees from the equinoctial line.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)

The two first stars named are exactly on what is called the equinoctial line.

From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Finlay, Roger Thompson