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A line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel
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waterline
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" Waterline " is a song by Irish pop duo Jedward . It was written by Swedish songwriter Nick Jarl and Swedish-based American songwriter Sharon Vaughn . It is best known as Ireland's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also water-line , 1620s, line where the water rises to on the hull of a ship afloat, from water (n.1) + line (n.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her machinery and her accommodations for equipage and her fifty-eight-man crew were below the waterline . ▪ The boat burns to the waterline and sinks, leaving no surviving witnesses or evidence. ▪ The third struck above the waterline ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A line formed by the surface of the water on the hull of a ship when she is afloat; any of a series of short lines marked on the hull to show where the waterline would be under different loadings. 2 (context aviation English) ...
Usage examples of waterline.
Just as she regained control in after steering, with her executive officer now in command, two more missiles hit, one amidship at the waterline, destroying main control, and the second in a torpedo magazine.
He saw fronds just above the waterline, which had recently survived ashfall from a volcano, curl from the heat, turn brown, and fall away.
So when he saw the flash, heard the gun shot, felt that ball smack into the boat at the waterline, however much he may have felt like killing himself before, the idea that someone was deliberately trying to murder him must have brought all his natural instincts toward self-survival leaping to the surface, must have armed and nerved him with the decision to escape, if for no better reason than to get the bushwacking coward who was trying to get him.
Their supplies had included some command-fused explosives, he recalled, stored in one of the cargo lockers at the unfueled waterline.
On the other hand, he could not automatically endorse a pair of ungainly outboard walkways, or sponsons, which ran the length of the hull, both port and starboard, only inches above the waterline.
It had been working on Herb, yes, she knew that now, but it had been doing so almost as silently as a leech that battens on a person below the waterline.
Water churned fiercely to starboard as the Des Moines began a turn so sharp it was almost less than the ship's length along the waterline.
The weeds and the barnacles were thick along her waterline - she wasn't coppered high enough, sir.
The weeds and the barnacles were thick along her waterline — she wasn't coppered high enough, sir.
Persellan shielded his eyes, peering out to where the Fair Winds rode at anchor: some of her rigging was restored and the waterline hole had been repaired with delphinic help.
Twenty-two boats of the same type he'd seen in Baytown, with handholds at the waterline, and detached wooden fins lying beside them.
Gunsmoke billowed out from among the grey rocks and cannonballs kicked up spouts of foam along the Gull's waterline or punched holes in her sails.
If she went in until the water came to her neck, the seals of her mask and air filter would be below the waterline and only her head would be above it.
His drawing table was stacked with preliminary plans, where frame lines, waterlines and buttocks curved and intersected sweetly.
He had been over the side himself and could remember the height of the waterline, and he had for a more exact guide the level of the fothered sail under the ship's bottom.