Definitions

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  • noun A short line attached to a trawl. See trawl, n.

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  • noun A short line attached to a trawl.

Etymologies

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Uncertain.

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Examples

  • The odd time the gangion (the thinner branch line) will break if it has been frayed by the fish's fighting.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • The odd time the gangion (the thinner branch line) will break if it has been frayed by the fish's fighting.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Researcher Julia Whitty wrote, "One of the biggest culprits is long-lining, in which a single boat sets plastic line across 60 miles of ocean, each bearing gangion lines that dangle at different depths, baited with 10,000 hooks designed to catch a variety of species.

    KILLING OUR OCEANS: NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS 2007

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  • "There's a bait table on top of the stern rail—basically a wooden well with squid and mackerel in it—and a leader cart on either side. The leader carts are small drums spooled with hundreds of lengths of seven-fathom line, called gangions. Each gangion has a number ten hook at one end and a stainless steel snap on the other."

    —Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1997 (NY: HarperCollins, 1999), 52

    August 17, 2009