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Plimsoll's mark
Plim′soll’s markˊ
.(Naut.)
A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; – so called from Samuel
Plimsoll
, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.