These facts Tom ascertained with the use of a small tapeline which he carried in his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference

I'll borrow dad's big tapeline to measure off the other bases, and the grand stand can go here.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

Everybody seemed to draw a long breath, as they kept their eyes on that point of the distant road where the first runner would make his appearance, turn aside, and head across the field for the final tapeline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference

At last he stopped, and took a tapeline from his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Face and the Mask] Reference

"Let's get father's tapeline and measure it," said Frank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)] Reference

If at 60 inches, measured with a tapeline from your eye to the book, then your eye number is 60, which is remarkably good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodland Tales] Reference

In the earlier work the lines of the walls, so far as they could be determined, were run with a compass and tapeline and gone over with a level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Upon the original outline were then drawn all such details as coping stones, chimneys, trapdoors, etc., the tapeline being used where necessary to establish positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Here he stopped and began searching, as though for some mark; then, having found that which he looked for, he drew a tapeline and a large brass pocket compass from his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference

North -- strong, artful, self-sufficient, clannish, honorable within the laws of their race, holding in lenient contempt neighboring tribes who bow to the measure of Society's tapeline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference

Now have the Guide hold a man's watch (open if hunting-cased), near your head; if you can hear it at 40 inches, measured on a tapeline, and prove that you do, by telling exactly where it is, in several tries, your hearing number is 40, which is high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodland Tales] Reference

The stretched tapeline afforded a basis for estimating any deviations from a straight line which the wall presented, and as each sight was plotted on the spot these deviations are all recorded on the plan, and afford an indication of the degree of accuracy with which the building was carried out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

A twenty-foot tapeline in my pocket, and hurried off to the hill where the house was to stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of California Life] Reference