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A plimsoll shoe or simply plimsoll is a type of athletic shoe with a canvas upper and rubber sole, developed as beachwear in the 1830s by the Liverpool Rubber Company (later to become Dunlop). The shoe was originally, and often still is in parts of the UK, called a 'sand shoe' and acquired the nickname 'plimsoll' in the 1870s.
Plimsoll is a surname, and may refer to: James Plimsoll, a governor of Tasmania; John Plimsoll, South African cricketer; Oliver Plimsolls, fictional character in The League of Gentlemen (comedy) Samuel Plimsoll, British politician; Plimsoll may also refer to: 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 ("standard state "). Plimsoll line or Plimsoll mark on a ship's hull, named after Samuel Plimsoll; Plimsoll shoe, which ...
The Plimsoll Club is renowned for providing exceptional food and services to World Trade Center members, convention clientele, local businesses, and others.
Plimsoll ship data is a searchable database of Lloyds Register shipping records from 1930 to 1945
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plim·soll (pl m s l, -sôl) also plim·sol or plim·sole (-s l) n. Chiefly British. A rubber-soled cloth shoe; a sneaker. [Probably from the resemblance of its mudguard to a ...
Samuel Plimsoll, M.P. (1824-1898) Samuel Plimsoll brought about one of the greatest shipping revolutions ever known by shocking the British nation into making reforms ...
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