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plimsoll|ˈplɪmsɒl, -səl|
[The name of S. Plimsoll, M.P. for Derby, to whose agitation the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 was due.]
1. (With capital initial.) In Plimsoll line (line n.2 7), plimsoll mark, also called Plimsoll's mark (see mark n.1 12), the load-line required to be placed upon the hulls of British ships. Also fig. and Plimsoll's pancake = Plimsoll line.
1881[see mark n.1 12]. 1884Chr. World 13 Mar. 185/3 On the vessels in our docks and harbours may now be seen the ‘Plimsoll mark’. 1894Westm. Gaz. 17 Oct. 1/2 The only question in dispute is where to affix this Plimsoll line of respectability. 1896Nautical Mag. Jan. 17 ‘Plimsoll's pancake’ will ruin the colonial carrying trade. 1912R. W. Service Rhymes of Rolling Stone (1913) 78 Loaded to the Plimsoll mark With God's sunshine was that boy. 1920P. L. Waldron Afloat & Ashore 57 The ship was loaded down to ‘Plimsoll's pancake’. 1957R. Campbell Portugal 29 It..will pierce a crocodile if shot on the ‘Plimsoll-line’ between back and belly. 1961John o' London's 18 May 567/1 Wearing towel..and not wearing that a millimetre more than the censor demands either below or above the cheesecake plimsoll-line. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo iv. 59 Big bull elephants..stand up to their plimsoll lines in the lake. 1972Author Winter 187/2 The secondary school performance was worse—only 9 ‘good’ and 13 ‘reasonable’, with 140 below the Plimsoll line. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 31 July 15/2, I tried to teach my wife, Lila, to fish, but with only a mud turtle, a rusty bucket, and a two-inch bluegill to show for standing three hours up to her Plimsoll line in cold water, she became an incorrigible dropout. 1978T. de V. White My Name is Norval i. 15 She had..[a] formula for..the restraining of male advances: a Plimsoll mark below which she was theoretically in danger.
2. Also (through association with sole n.1 2) plimsole. A kind of rubber-soled canvas shoe. Usu. pl. Also attrib.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 326/1 The Plimsoll or Sand Shoes. 1922Times 27 Dec. 7/7 When Seabrook appeared in court he was wearing white plimsolls. 1927W. Deeping Kitty xii. 148 These stealthy affairs..made him think of sneaking out in plimsolls and kidding some ‘cop’. 1930W. P. Ridge Miss Collingwood i. 12 She kicked off her plimsolls, and walked about in stockinged feet. 1936G. Pollet Song for Sixpence xi. 89 For two pleasant days I have been holidaying it in plimsolls whilst my shoes have been upon the rack. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) ii. 397 Their blankets and materny mufflers and plimsoles. 1965D. Francis Odds Against xii. 163 Chico had made a plimsole-shod inspection. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 131 Canvas shoes..are usually ‘plimsoll’ or espadrille shape for sports, beach or leisure. 1973‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxxvi. 181 She came in through the door like a commando in plimsolls.
Hence ˈplimsol(l)ed a., wearing plimsolls.
1955E. Blishen Roaring Boys iv. 183 Dancing on plimsolled toes like a boxer. 1959F. Baines In Deep 29 Moses and I put on plimsolls and slipped down the alley-way. 1963‘R. East’ Pin Men iii. 62 He lifted his plimsolled foot. 1974C. Fremlin By Horror Haunted 157 The wary, plimsoled footstep. |