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lubber line

noun

  1. a mark on a ship's compass that designates the fore-and-aft axis of the vessel Also calledlubber's line
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In other words, if the ship is heading NW, the pelorus must be set with the NW point on the lubber line when the bearing is taken of any object.

While he had winked his eyes, so it seemed to him, the true course had fairly straddled away from the lubber line.

They were hanging to a lubber line near the quarterdeck, which on the chaser was a part of the after deck having imaginary boundaries only, established by order of the chaser's commander.

The lubber line, therefore, will always represent the bow of the ship, and the point on the compass card nearest the lubber line will be the point toward which the ship is heading.

Now go to your compass and see that its lubber line is exactly fore and aft and in the keel line of the ship.

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