tapeline
Example Sentences
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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 Francis W. (Francis Wayland) Parker
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 Austin Hall
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 Henry Hobart Nichols
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 Ernest Thompson Seton
What consolation radiated from her thimble, what encouragement even in the sight of her tapeline!
From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli
