Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A short line attached to a trawl. See
trawl , n.
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- noun A short
line attached to atrawl .
Etymologies
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Uncertain.
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Examples
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The odd time the gangion (the thinner branch line) will break if it has been frayed by the fish's fighting.
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The odd time the gangion (the thinner branch line) will break if it has been frayed by the fish's fighting.
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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.
chained_bear commented on the word gangion
"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