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lead line
[ led ]
noun
- a line by which a lead is lowered into the water to take soundings: in deep-sea practice, divided into levels one fathom apart, variously treated as marks and deeps.
lead line
/ lɛd /
noun
- nautical a length of line for swinging a lead, marked at various points to indicate multiples of fathoms
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lead line1
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Example Sentences
The instructor would give you a lead line and a slate board, and drop you into the water.
Soundings were taken at frequent intervals with a hand lead-line, manipulated by Madigan.
I tell 'ee what, sir, them Frenchies is treecherous devils, an' not to be trusted the len'th of a lead line.
He encountered a small, hard line, like a lead-line, being paid out from the forecastle and carried aft by the man who had passed.
The man at the helm and the man with the lead-line fell backwards into the boat.
You would like better something more after the "Munich" school, where the lead line is disguised or circumvented.
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