Plimsoll (shoe)
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A plimsoll, also spelled plimsole, or pump, is a light sports shoe with a canvas upper and flat rubber sole.
Plimsolls with elastic instead of laces
A pair of blue plimsolls
A pair of white plimsolls labelled as "tennis shoes"
Load line (watercraft)
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The load line, also known as Plimsoll line, indicates the legal limit to which a ship may be loaded for specific water types and temperatures in order to safely maintain buoyancy, particularly with re
Plimsoll (shoe)
…arose, according to Nicholette Jones's book The Plimsoll Sensation, because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship's hull, or because, just like the line on a ship, if water got above the line of the rubber sole, the wearer would get wet. In the UK, plimsolls…
Load line mark and additional load lines on the hull of a ship
Load line markings on a cereal carrier, certified by Bureau Veritas.
Lloyd's Register ("LR") load line mark and lines for commercial sailing vessels
Lloyd's Register ("LR") load line mark and lines and timber load line mark and lines for power-driven merchant vessels