waterlinen.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtəlʌɪn/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdərˌlaɪn/,

/ˈwɑdərˌlaɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., line n.²

Etymology: < water n. + line n.²Compare Dutch waterlijn (1671 in senses 1a and 3), German Wasserlinie (1726 in sense 3a).

a. Nautical. The line of flotation of a ship; the line where the surface of the water meets the hull when a ship is afloat; spec. the proper line of flotation when the ship is fully laden (= load-water-line n.).light waterline: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > waterline

waterlinea1625

water-streak1797

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > waterline > when laden

waterlinea1625

load-mark-line1711

load-water-line1769

load line1884

a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) f. 88 Water-line Is that line wch the Ship wrights doe pretend should be the depth that the ship should swim in, when shee is laden.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva iv. 20 Elm is..proper for Water-works, Mills, Pipes, Pumps, Ship-planks beneath the Water-line.

1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 125 Our second Water-line, which I call the sailing-line.

1773 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 236 Let Dd AcC be the water-line or horizontal section of the water and the hull of a ship.

1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 13/1 Her length on the water-line 230 feet.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 151 Brigs laden to the water-line with cargo and steering straight for Africa.

1892 Cent. Mag. May 23/2 The outlets are below the water-line of the boat.

1958 K. Nelson & C. Ford Klondy: Daughter Gold Rush iv. 71 They would sail back..their boats loaded to the water line with gore-spattered blubbery hulks.

2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Dec. a20/3 The armor belt of the battleships..dropped several inches below the waterline.

b. Shipbuilding. Each of a set of imaginary lines where horizontal planes at different heights cut the hull of a ship, which represent the contour of the hull at those heights and collectively determine the exterior shape of the vessel.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > lines, sections, or elevations

middle line?c1400

sweep1627

lines1680

touch1711

waterline1750

station1754

sheer-draught1769

body plan1781

sheer-line1797

sheer-plan1797

touchline1797

water plane1798

centreline1806

buttock line1816

crown1830

scrieve1830

top-breadth line1846

wave-line1846

floor-plan1867

1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Water Line, is that which goes round the Ship at the Surface of the Water, and shews the true Shape of her Body.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 399/1 In ships that draw more water abaft than afore, the water lines will not be parallel to the keel.

1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. 186 Having the diagonals drawn on the body-plan, next draw in the water-lines.

1935 Mariner's Mirror 21 8 Then waterlines can be drawn across..and plotted down on the plan view.

1999 N. Roberts Inner Harbor iv. 63 Ethan..instructed her on smooth-lap planking, about waterlines and bow shapes.

†2. Nautical. A type of rope. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > types of

warp1296

sewing-rope1336

viring-rope1336

wardrope1338

bast1357

breast rope1412

balk-line1506

waterline1626

shank1706

selvage1711

shroud hawser1744

white line1747

selvagee1750

cringle1787

staple-rope1794

bracing-rope1827

selvage-stropc1860

soga1860

four-cant1867

toggle-lanyard1874

maguey1908

snorter1950

snotter1950

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 14 The brest ropes are now out of vse, the water line is [in use].

a. The line marking or representing the height or level at which the surface of a body of water, as a river, reservoir, flood, etc., meets a solid object, as a bridge, containing wall, floating body, etc. Also: the water surface itself. Cf. water level n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [noun] > rise in level of water > line to which water rises

waterline1760

flowage-line1830

1760 S. Riou Short Princ. Archit. Stone-bridges 2 The faces against the stream from their foundation up to the high water-line, are generally drawn circular or rectangular.

1838 Docs. Board of Aldermen City N.Y. 4 417 I consider 4 feet as an adequate difference between the top water lines of the receiving and distributing reservoirs.

1889 W. F. Johnston Hist. Johnstown Flood xxvii. 314 A little cottage just above the water-line in the upper part of the city.

1910 P. E. Fuller Use of Windmills Irrigation Semiarid West 10 Timber..is a cheap and simple substitute for stone, but its life above the water line is short.

1952 Functional Gloss. Ice Terminol. (U.S. Navy Hydrogr. Office) 22 More rapid melting at the water line than above and below causes a notch to be formed at the water line.

2010 Ultra Fit Apr. 92/2 Your head..should be positioned so the water line hits your forehead just above your goggles and below your swim hat.

b. The line marking the edge of a body of water, as a river, lake, etc., where it meets the adjacent land; a shoreline. Also: the moving line of contact between a shore and the sea, esp. that at high tide; the tideline.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > coast line

seasidec1275

the sea's sidea1400

seasides1532

shoreside1571

sea-linea1687

seaboard1788

waterline1789

shoreline1811

sea-edge1820

coast-line1861

ocean line1870

ria coast1899

rias coast1899

1789 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty Scotl. I. xxi. 2 Nothing exalts the dignity of a mountain so much, as it's rising from the water's edge. In measuring it, as it appears connected with the ground, the eye knows not where to begin... But a water-line prevents this ambiguity.

1833 London Lit. Gaz. 15 June 377/1 When the wave rested, the stone rolled back upon the beach, not in the same line, except when the wave struck it at right angles with the water-line of the beach.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvi. 423 The water-line was toothed with fangs of broken ice, which scraped against the beach as the tides rose and fell.

1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 219/1 When the mangrove grows on the outer edge of the water-line, and drops its aerial roots,..the spat of the raccoon oyster finds a lodgement.

1919 D. W. Johnson Shore Processes iv. 160 The zone over which the water line, the line of contact between land and sea, migrates..will here be called the shore.

1956 S. Plath Jrnl. 17 Aug. (2000) 257 Burning sand under footsoles, beach pebbled black with creosote along water line.

2009 T. Angell Puget Sound through Artist's Eye 107 When tides are very low, birds that forage in the shallows and at the water-line will be out some distance.

4. A faint line made in paper during manufacture, typically by the wires of the paper mould. Cf. watermark n. 5a.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > water(-)mark

watermark1708

waterline1779

foolscap1795

watermarking1849

countermark1927

1779 C. Wiseman Epistolæ Commerciales Mercantile Vocab. French 66/3 Ligne en blanc, water-line.

1847 A. De Morgan Arithm. Bks. Introd. p. xiii It is supposed..that the waterlines are perpendicular in folio, octavo, and decimo-octavo books, and horizontal in quarto and duodecimo.

1858 Sotheby's Principia Typogr. III. 32 In the identification of the manufacture of paper, two very important points must be observed: First, the space between the divisional water-lines caused by the thicker upright wires of the sieve and secondly, [etc.].

1901 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 70 20 Paper, stiff, of yellowish colour, with faint waterlines, about 11 to an inch.

2013 R. M. Seiler Bk. Beautiful (new ed.) 148 Sometimes, distinguishing an octavo (say) from a quarto was difficult, but if the book is printed on laid paper, the water-lines that run through the sheet will determine this.

5. An underground water level (water level n. 4); = water table n. 4. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > water table

water plane1719

water level?1794

water table1823

waterline1829

1829 Gleanings in Sci. 1 129 The whole of the coal which is above the water line is good for nothing.

1890 Nature 27 Nov. 94/2 The absence of water passing into the ground for a long period naturally leads to a lowering of the free ground water-line.

1897 S. Rideal Water & Purif. 84 The ‘line of saturation’, or water-line, is the level at which the water stands, and to which it will rise in wells, in any water-bearing stratum.

1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. i. 9 The height of the water-line depends largely on the rainfall, the rate of evapo-transpiration, the quantity of water removed by human agency, and the degree of dip of the beds.

6. A linear mark or stain made by water.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > mark of former roof on wall

waterline1876

society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > other traces or vestiges

staddle1691

Indian sign1805

geological record1811

powder mark1823

earmark1836

rock record1851

tool-mark1865

staddle-stead1868

staddle-mark1876

waterline1876

posthole1888

tooth-mark1889

pollen count1926

snake mark1929

parch mark1947

tranchet blow1949

posthole pattern1950

posthole evidence1962

1876 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 787/1 The presence of well-marked..water lines upon their [sc. the rocks'] faces, marking..the course of the old current.

1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. iii. 148 A new roof was constructed, the pitch of which was regulated by the water-line on the eastern face of the tower.

1942 Geogr. Jrnl. 100 33 On the salt crust of the dry lake floor a water line was visible where many dead insects were deposited.

2013 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 1 Feb. 5 The dirty waterline stained on the front of the battered weatherboard was well above her head.

7. Chiefly North American. A water pipe; a piped water supply.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > for water

water pipea1382

pump1535

well pipea1569

waterline1907

1907 Pop. Mech. Oct. 1122/2 In a certain place where they used water to prepare coal for the market it became necessary to change one of the large water lines that furnished the water.

1949 J. Drummond Behind Dark Shutters i. 21 They agreed to pipe a water line from Townhead and put in a ‘Kilmarnock well’ in the Row.

1978 R. P. Singhal Home Plumber's Bible v. 133 You will find the water shut-off valve on the main water line just outside your house.

2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 9 June a8/5 If the process reveals extensive tree roots in the trenchway, will the path of the water line be moved to the east side of the road?

Phrases

figurative. Chiefly British. to hole below (also beneath) the waterline: to damage or weaken irreparably; to condemn to certain destruction or failure. Frequently in to be holed below the waterline. Cf. sense 1a.

ΚΠ

1964 Observer 22 Mar. 28/3 This protracted analysis of a health-giving affair is holed below the water-line of credulity by some really blatant misconceptions.

1971 Times 22 Nov. 16/6 Inside 90 seconds they were holed below the waterline when Hennessey's forward lob bisected Colquhoun and Flynn for Hector to tuck away his shot.

2007 J. Kavenna Inglorious (2008) 5 They flagged on for a few more months, but anyone could tell their relationship was holed below the waterline.

2013 A. Geddes Brit. & European Union vii. 184 The ERM disaster of 1992 had holed the Conservative government beneath the waterline.

Compounds

General attributive as (sense 1a) water-line armour, water-line belt, water-line length; (sense 1b) water-line model, water-line pattern, water-line plan.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > model

water-line model1848

block model1901

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > sheathing > armour-plating

belting1567

armour plate1683

belt1822

armour1838

armour plating1860

cuirass1860

belt armour1866

water-line armour1884

glacis plate1889

1848 Sci. Amer. 18 Nov. 70/3 A key model, or water-line model, is formed of pieces of board laid on each other horizontally.

1863 Amer. Ann. Cycl. 1862 2 615/2 The hull..is of wood, but protected by plating with iron the deck situated at level of the top of the water-line belt of armor.

1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 14 What god is this imperial Heat?.. Doth it bear hidden in its heart Water-line patterns of all art, All figures, organs, hues, and graces?

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 1/2 The water-line armour tends to save the ship from sinking... To leave two-thirds the length of the ship without this water-line armoured belt is a most awfully risky experiment.

1892 Cent. Mag. May 25/1 Which thus gained advantage over square-sterned boats of equal water-line length.

1912 Motorboating Mar. 18/3 This buttock line should be drawn across the water line plan.

2002 F. Braynard S.S. United States 86/1 A large water-line model of the United States was also on display.

2009 Independent 22 Apr. 15/2 Boat speed depends on waterline length.

Derivatives

ˈwater-lined adj. (of paper) marked with waterlines (sense 4).

ΚΠ

1829 Aurora & Franklin (Philadelphia) Gaz. 19 June Received from London, a small quantity of Brief Foolscap, water lined, manufactured expressly for gentlemen of the bar.

1905 Mining World 7 Oct. 380/2 The notes of the Bank of England..are printed in black ink on Irish linen water-lined paper.

1998 M. Holroyd B. Shaw (rev. ed.) xiv. 494 He wrote 1,500 words of prime work a morning on blocks of water-lined paper with a green tint to rest his eyes.

† ˈwater-liner n. Obsolete rare a shot that hits a vessel on the waterline.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > firing of guns > type of shot

broadside1589

prow1600

a shot between wind and water1695

water-liner1898

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > an artillery shot > at sea

prow1600

a shot between wind and water1695

water-liner1898

1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being ii. 21 Oh, good shot! That was a water-liner... That was the Marines' three-pounder.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	waterline
释义	waterlinen. Brit. /ˈwɔːtəlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌlaɪn/, /ˈwɑdərˌlaɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., line n.² Etymology: < water n. + line n.²Compare Dutch waterlijn (1671 in senses 1a and 3), German Wasserlinie (1726 in sense 3a). 1. a. Nautical. The line of flotation of a ship; the line where the surface of the water meets the hull when a ship is afloat; spec. the proper line of flotation when the ship is fully laden (= load-water-line n.).light waterline: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > waterline waterlinea1625 water-streak1797 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > waterline > when laden waterlinea1625 load-mark-line1711 load-water-line1769 load line1884 a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) f. 88 Water-line Is that line wch the Ship wrights doe pretend should be the depth that the ship should swim in, when shee is laden. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva iv. 20 Elm is..proper for Water-works, Mills, Pipes, Pumps, Ship-planks beneath the Water-line. 1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 125 Our second Water-line, which I call the sailing-line. 1773 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 236 Let Dd AcC be the water-line or horizontal section of the water and the hull of a ship. 1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 13/1 Her length on the water-line 230 feet. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 151 Brigs laden to the water-line with cargo and steering straight for Africa. 1892 Cent. Mag. May 23/2 The outlets are below the water-line of the boat. 1958 K. Nelson & C. Ford Klondy: Daughter Gold Rush iv. 71 They would sail back..their boats loaded to the water line with gore-spattered blubbery hulks. 2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Dec. a20/3 The armor belt of the battleships..dropped several inches below the waterline. b. Shipbuilding. Each of a set of imaginary lines where horizontal planes at different heights cut the hull of a ship, which represent the contour of the hull at those heights and collectively determine the exterior shape of the vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > lines, sections, or elevations middle line?c1400 sweep1627 lines1680 touch1711 waterline1750 station1754 sheer-draught1769 body plan1781 sheer-line1797 sheer-plan1797 touchline1797 water plane1798 centreline1806 buttock line1816 crown1830 scrieve1830 top-breadth line1846 wave-line1846 floor-plan1867 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Water Line, is that which goes round the Ship at the Surface of the Water, and shews the true Shape of her Body. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 399/1 In ships that draw more water abaft than afore, the water lines will not be parallel to the keel. 1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. 186 Having the diagonals drawn on the body-plan, next draw in the water-lines. 1935 Mariner's Mirror 21 8 Then waterlines can be drawn across..and plotted down on the plan view. 1999 N. Roberts Inner Harbor iv. 63 Ethan..instructed her on smooth-lap planking, about waterlines and bow shapes. †2. Nautical. A type of rope. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > types of warp1296 sewing-rope1336 viring-rope1336 wardrope1338 bast1357 breast rope1412 balk-line1506 waterline1626 shank1706 selvage1711 shroud hawser1744 white line1747 selvagee1750 cringle1787 staple-rope1794 bracing-rope1827 selvage-stropc1860 soga1860 four-cant1867 toggle-lanyard1874 maguey1908 snorter1950 snotter1950 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 14 The brest ropes are now out of vse, the water line is [in use]. 3. a. The line marking or representing the height or level at which the surface of a body of water, as a river, reservoir, flood, etc., meets a solid object, as a bridge, containing wall, floating body, etc. Also: the water surface itself. Cf. water level n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [noun] > rise in level of water > line to which water rises waterline1760 flowage-line1830 1760 S. Riou Short Princ. Archit. Stone-bridges 2 The faces against the stream from their foundation up to the high water-line, are generally drawn circular or rectangular. 1838 Docs. Board of Aldermen City N.Y. 4 417 I consider 4 feet as an adequate difference between the top water lines of the receiving and distributing reservoirs. 1889 W. F. Johnston Hist. Johnstown Flood xxvii. 314 A little cottage just above the water-line in the upper part of the city. 1910 P. E. Fuller Use of Windmills Irrigation Semiarid West 10 Timber..is a cheap and simple substitute for stone, but its life above the water line is short. 1952 Functional Gloss. Ice Terminol. (U.S. Navy Hydrogr. Office) 22 More rapid melting at the water line than above and below causes a notch to be formed at the water line. 2010 Ultra Fit Apr. 92/2 Your head..should be positioned so the water line hits your forehead just above your goggles and below your swim hat. b. The line marking the edge of a body of water, as a river, lake, etc., where it meets the adjacent land; a shoreline. Also: the moving line of contact between a shore and the sea, esp. that at high tide; the tideline. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > coast line seasidec1275 the sea's sidea1400 seasides1532 shoreside1571 sea-linea1687 seaboard1788 waterline1789 shoreline1811 sea-edge1820 coast-line1861 ocean line1870 ria coast1899 rias coast1899 1789 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty Scotl. I. xxi. 2 Nothing exalts the dignity of a mountain so much, as it's rising from the water's edge. In measuring it, as it appears connected with the ground, the eye knows not where to begin... But a water-line prevents this ambiguity. 1833 London Lit. Gaz. 15 June 377/1 When the wave rested, the stone rolled back upon the beach, not in the same line, except when the wave struck it at right angles with the water-line of the beach. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvi. 423 The water-line was toothed with fangs of broken ice, which scraped against the beach as the tides rose and fell. 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 219/1 When the mangrove grows on the outer edge of the water-line, and drops its aerial roots,..the spat of the raccoon oyster finds a lodgement. 1919 D. W. Johnson Shore Processes iv. 160 The zone over which the water line, the line of contact between land and sea, migrates..will here be called the shore. 1956 S. Plath Jrnl. 17 Aug. (2000) 257 Burning sand under footsoles, beach pebbled black with creosote along water line. 2009 T. Angell Puget Sound through Artist's Eye 107 When tides are very low, birds that forage in the shallows and at the water-line will be out some distance. 4. A faint line made in paper during manufacture, typically by the wires of the paper mould. Cf. watermark n. 5a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > water(-)mark watermark1708 waterline1779 foolscap1795 watermarking1849 countermark1927 1779 C. Wiseman Epistolæ Commerciales Mercantile Vocab. French 66/3 Ligne en blanc, water-line. 1847 A. De Morgan Arithm. Bks. Introd. p. xiii It is supposed..that the waterlines are perpendicular in folio, octavo, and decimo-octavo books, and horizontal in quarto and duodecimo. 1858 Sotheby's Principia Typogr. III. 32 In the identification of the manufacture of paper, two very important points must be observed: First, the space between the divisional water-lines caused by the thicker upright wires of the sieve and secondly, [etc.]. 1901 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 70 20 Paper, stiff, of yellowish colour, with faint waterlines, about 11 to an inch. 2013 R. M. Seiler Bk. Beautiful (new ed.) 148 Sometimes, distinguishing an octavo (say) from a quarto was difficult, but if the book is printed on laid paper, the water-lines that run through the sheet will determine this. 5. An underground water level (water level n. 4); = water table n. 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > water table water plane1719 water level?1794 water table1823 waterline1829 1829 Gleanings in Sci. 1 129 The whole of the coal which is above the water line is good for nothing. 1890 Nature 27 Nov. 94/2 The absence of water passing into the ground for a long period naturally leads to a lowering of the free ground water-line. 1897 S. Rideal Water & Purif. 84 The ‘line of saturation’, or water-line, is the level at which the water stands, and to which it will rise in wells, in any water-bearing stratum. 1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. i. 9 The height of the water-line depends largely on the rainfall, the rate of evapo-transpiration, the quantity of water removed by human agency, and the degree of dip of the beds. 6. A linear mark or stain made by water. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > mark of former roof on wall waterline1876 society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > other traces or vestiges staddle1691 Indian sign1805 geological record1811 powder mark1823 earmark1836 rock record1851 tool-mark1865 staddle-stead1868 staddle-mark1876 waterline1876 posthole1888 tooth-mark1889 pollen count1926 snake mark1929 parch mark1947 tranchet blow1949 posthole pattern1950 posthole evidence1962 1876 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 787/1 The presence of well-marked..water lines upon their [sc. the rocks'] faces, marking..the course of the old current. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. iii. 148 A new roof was constructed, the pitch of which was regulated by the water-line on the eastern face of the tower. 1942 Geogr. Jrnl. 100 33 On the salt crust of the dry lake floor a water line was visible where many dead insects were deposited. 2013 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 1 Feb. 5 The dirty waterline stained on the front of the battered weatherboard was well above her head. 7. Chiefly North American. A water pipe; a piped water supply. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > for water water pipea1382 pump1535 well pipea1569 waterline1907 1907 Pop. Mech. Oct. 1122/2 In a certain place where they used water to prepare coal for the market it became necessary to change one of the large water lines that furnished the water. 1949 J. Drummond Behind Dark Shutters i. 21 They agreed to pipe a water line from Townhead and put in a ‘Kilmarnock well’ in the Row. 1978 R. P. Singhal Home Plumber's Bible v. 133 You will find the water shut-off valve on the main water line just outside your house. 2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 9 June a8/5 If the process reveals extensive tree roots in the trenchway, will the path of the water line be moved to the east side of the road? Phrases figurative. Chiefly British. to hole below (also beneath) the waterline: to damage or weaken irreparably; to condemn to certain destruction or failure. Frequently in to be holed below the waterline. Cf. sense 1a. ΚΠ 1964 Observer 22 Mar. 28/3 This protracted analysis of a health-giving affair is holed below the water-line of credulity by some really blatant misconceptions. 1971 Times 22 Nov. 16/6 Inside 90 seconds they were holed below the waterline when Hennessey's forward lob bisected Colquhoun and Flynn for Hector to tuck away his shot. 2007 J. Kavenna Inglorious (2008) 5 They flagged on for a few more months, but anyone could tell their relationship was holed below the waterline. 2013 A. Geddes Brit. & European Union vii. 184 The ERM disaster of 1992 had holed the Conservative government beneath the waterline. Compounds General attributive as (sense 1a) water-line armour, water-line belt, water-line length; (sense 1b) water-line model, water-line pattern, water-line plan. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > model water-line model1848 block model1901 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > sheathing > armour-plating belting1567 armour plate1683 belt1822 armour1838 armour plating1860 cuirass1860 belt armour1866 water-line armour1884 glacis plate1889 1848 Sci. Amer. 18 Nov. 70/3 A key model, or water-line model, is formed of pieces of board laid on each other horizontally. 1863 Amer. Ann. Cycl. 1862 2 615/2 The hull..is of wood, but protected by plating with iron the deck situated at level of the top of the water-line belt of armor. 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 14 What god is this imperial Heat?.. Doth it bear hidden in its heart Water-line patterns of all art, All figures, organs, hues, and graces? 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 1/2 The water-line armour tends to save the ship from sinking... To leave two-thirds the length of the ship without this water-line armoured belt is a most awfully risky experiment. 1892 Cent. Mag. May 25/1 Which thus gained advantage over square-sterned boats of equal water-line length. 1912 Motorboating Mar. 18/3 This buttock line should be drawn across the water line plan. 2002 F. Braynard S.S. United States 86/1 A large water-line model of the United States was also on display. 2009 Independent 22 Apr. 15/2 Boat speed depends on waterline length. Derivatives ˈwater-lined adj. (of paper) marked with waterlines (sense 4). ΚΠ 1829 Aurora & Franklin (Philadelphia) Gaz. 19 June Received from London, a small quantity of Brief Foolscap, water lined, manufactured expressly for gentlemen of the bar. 1905 Mining World 7 Oct. 380/2 The notes of the Bank of England..are printed in black ink on Irish linen water-lined paper. 1998 M. Holroyd B. Shaw (rev. ed.) xiv. 494 He wrote 1,500 words of prime work a morning on blocks of water-lined paper with a green tint to rest his eyes. † ˈwater-liner n. Obsolete rare a shot that hits a vessel on the waterline. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > firing of guns > type of shot broadside1589 prow1600 a shot between wind and water1695 water-liner1898 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > an artillery shot > at sea prow1600 a shot between wind and water1695 water-liner1898 1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being ii. 21 Oh, good shot! That was a water-liner... That was the Marines' three-pounder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1625
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