plimsoll : Idioms & Phrases

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plimsoll line

  • noun waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded
    load line; Plimsoll line; Plimsoll.
WordNet

plimsoll mark

  • noun waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded
    load line; Plimsoll line; Plimsoll.
WordNet

plimsoll's mark

Plim"soll's mark`
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.
Webster 1913