previous next

Wa′ter-lines.


1. (Shipbuilding.) Ship's lines drawn parallel with the surface of the water, at varying hights. In the sheer plan they are straight and horizontal; in the half-breadth plan they show the form of the ship at the successive hights marked by the water-lines in the sheer plan.


2. (Nautical.) The line up to which the hull of a vessel is submerged in the water.

Load water-line: the line to which a ship sinks with all her cargo and stores on board.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: