light waterline

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English

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Etymology

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From light (“lacking weight”, adjective) +‎ waterline (noun).

Noun

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light waterline (plural light waterlines)

  1. (nautical) The waterline at which a vessel floats when light or unladen.

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William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “water-line”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes V (Simular–Z), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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