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Definition of Snap line
1. Noun. A chalked string used in the building trades to make a straight line on a vertical surface.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snap Line
Literary usage of Snap line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laying Down and Taking Off by Charles Desmond (1919)
"... have one or more assistants stop the line at equal intervals by pressing it
down to floor without shifting it, and then snap line section by section. ..."
2. Audel's Ship Fitters' Guide: A Practical Treatise on Steel Ship Building and by Ralph Newstead (1919)
"... we will have to take half this thickness, which is % inch, and measure over
from the center line on the board, % inch, and snap line A2, A2, Fig. 46. ..."
3. Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Washington by Washington (State). Supreme Court, Arthur Remington, Solon Dickerson Williams (1910)
"The evidence shows that the snap line which broke and struck the respondent was
a short line attached to the main cable by means of a hook and eye, ..."
4. Discovery and Conquests of the North-west, with the History of Chicago by Rufus Blanchard (1881)
"This he-built, making the frame from green timber, cut from the forests on the
North Side, hewn to a snap-line* with a broad-axe in the old-fashioned way. ..."
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