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water-line models

water-line models is the plural of water-line model.

Meaning of water-line model

Noun

water-line model (plural water-line models)

  1. a model of a vessel formed of boards which are shaped according to the water lines as shown in the plans and laid upon each other to form a solid model
    • Assuming the body-plan to be already swept in by the diagonal lines, (it matters not for our present purpose whether they are swept in the half-breadth,) we may now divide the body-plan into sections parallel to the base-line, as high as the load-line of flotation; and on those assumed water-lines...1854, John Willis Griffiths, Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture, page 195

Questions about water-line models

What is water-line models the plural of?
Water-line models is the plural of water-line model.

Words near water-line models in the dictionary

  1. water-level
  2. water-lilies
  3. water-lily
  4. water-line
  5. water-line model
  6. water-line models
  7. water-lines
  8. water-log
  9. water-logged
  10. water-logging
  11. water-logs

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