tapeline

Example Sentences

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If at 60 inches, measured with a tapeline from your eye to the book, then your eye number is 60, which is remarkably good.

From Woodland Tales by Seton, Ernest Thompson

At last he stopped, and took a tapeline from his pocket.

From The Face and the Mask by Barr, Robert

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

Either the two lads had measured or counted wrong in their advance with the tapeline or, as Phil concluded, the distance was only approximate.

From The Auto Boys' Vacation by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

The doctor noted the positions of the three empty sockets and, drawing a tapeline from his pocket, proceeded to measure the distances from each of the three—they were widely separated round the circle—from each other.

From The Blind Spot by Hall, Austin