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- noun Plural form of
codline .
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Examples
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He sulkily picked up the codlines, and threw the hooks overboard.
Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Thence it is an easy digression to the halibut -- scarcely smaller than the whale -- which ran out six codlines and hauled my dory to the mouth of Boston harbor before I could touch him with the gaff.
Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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