tapeline

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"Let's get father's tapeline and measure it," said Frank.

From Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) by Parker, Francis W. (Francis Wayland)

In the earlier work the lines of the walls, so far as they could be determined, were run with a compass and tapeline and gone over with a level.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

What consolation radiated from her thimble, what encouragement even in the sight of her tapeline!

From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli

I'll borrow dad's big tapeline to measure off the other bases, and the grand stand can go here.

From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Seely, Herman Gastrell

Upon the original outline were then drawn all such details as coping stones, chimneys, trapdoors, etc., the tapeline being used where necessary to establish positions.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart