load line

Example Sentences

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During that period, its load line - which indicates the depth to which it can be safely loaded with cargo - sinks to water-level, indicating it has taken on a heavy load.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2022

“My mother worked on the load line during the Vietnam War,” Blewitt said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2016

All overhead discharge from the circulating pumps, ballast pumps, bilge pumps, etc., were below the deep load line, but above the light line.

From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by Government, British

The agents will hail us to-night and settle matters, for we're on the load line and nigh steved.

From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by Hains, T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins)

Steel vessels are made unsinkable with water-tight compartments, and officially marked with a Plimsoll load line beneath which they must not be submerged.

From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)