plimsoll
nounEtymology
From Samuel Plimsoll, a Bristol merchant who created a system of marks and symbols for the waterline of ships. The shoe was possibly named because the line of its sole resembled the Plimsoll line of ship.
Definitions
A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships
A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.
- “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.
- While here, now, a large boy, a famous bully, swaggered to the front to bend, leering, and offer his satirical backside to be ineffectually beaten with a plimsoll by the gentle Scot.
The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of…
The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
A surname.
The neighborhood
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- neighborPlimsoll line
- neighborPlimsoll mark
Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA