Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fishing-line worked by hand without a rod.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a fishing line managed principally by hand.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fishing line managed principally by hand
- noun a fishing line managed principally by hand
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Examples
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Spence was supposedly catching the fish with a handline which was a little hokey.
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I am in those very waters now and much better equipped than Santiago, who had only a hook and a handline.
The Mid-Life Slam 2009
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Spence was supposedly catching the fish with a handline which was a little hokey.
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Although the actual angling technique with the rope and handline maneuvers is a bit odd, the rock fishing is pretty common over here.
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In 1882, American sailing schooners began a regular handline cod fishery.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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The topics he covers range quite a bit starting from the very beginning with programming style through documentation and error handline.
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Crews completed indirect dozer and handline in the Kelso Valley area to prevent the fire from moving on to private land.
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I was lead saw on Tahoe 1 firecrew on the marbel cone fire, our crew was the point handline crew when we were told to stop the hand line in the wilderness area.we were close to completion of the line when we stopped and the wilderness was lost.
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Purse-seine, handline, jig, trap and pot fisheries have low discard rates.
Bycatch 2008
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I know something of the rows between trawlers and handline men. . .
The Newfoundland Nationalist orthodoxy Ed Hollett 2007
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