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Plimsoll

noun
1.
Waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded.  Synonyms: load line, Plimsoll line, Plimsoll mark.
2.
A light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top.





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"Plimsoll" Quotes from Famous Books



... breeches and puttees, his face concealed for the moment by his hands. A sleeve of the girl's frock was torn away, the outworn fabric in streamers. The man's hands came down and Mormon recognized him for Jim Plimsoll, owner of the Good Luck Pool Parlors, in the little cattle town of Hereford, where faro, roulette, chuckaluck and craps were played in the back room, owner also of a near-by horse ranch. There was blood on his face, the marks ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn
... Bill, giving household suffrage in boroughs and extending the county franchise. Succeeding Lord Derby in 1868, he was forced to resign soon afterwards. In 1874 he entered his second premiership. Two years were devoted to home measures, among which were Plimsoll's Shipping Act and the abolition of Scottish Church patronage. Then followed a showy foreign policy. The securing of the half of the Suez Canal shares for Britain; the proclamation of the Queen as Empress of India; the support of ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... domain of navigation especially, and aided by the difficulty of control, many unpardonable wrongs are committed. Through the revelations made during the seventies by Plimsoll in the British Parliament, the fact has become notorious that many shipowners, yielding to criminal greed, take out high insurances for vessels that are not seaworthy, and unconscionably expose them, together with their crews, to the slightest weather at sea,—all for the sake of the ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel


Words linked to "Plimsoll" :   tennis shoe, U.K., Plimsoll mark, load line, water level, waterline, sneaker, UK, water line, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain, Great Britain, gym shoe, Plimsoll line


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