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Definition of Fishing line
1. Noun. A length of cord to which the leader and float and sinker and hook are attached.
Group relationships: Fishing Gear, Fishing Rig, Fishing Tackle, Rig, Tackle
Specialized synonyms: Hand Line, Handline, Night-line, Setline, Spiller, Trawl, Trawl Line, Trotline
Definition of Fishing line
1. Noun. A cord or line where the hook or lure is attached. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishing Line
Literary usage of Fishing line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"Sinker for fishing-line, Mer. There are three kinds of tup ... They are in full
roe 1 Hook, tud or tudi (W.), kek (E.); fishing-line, ariga (W.), ..."
2. A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on by Anthony Rich (1874)
"A fishing-line (Mart, iii. 58. 28.) made of strong hair (seta, Avian. Fab. xx.
I.) or flax twisted into thread (linum, Ov. Mei. xiii. 923). ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"A fishing-line. Yotk*h. (2) e. To faint ; to fall gently to sleep. North. (3) v.
To vanish. Lan». TAUNT, (1) ». ..."
4. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"fishing line and hook.. fishing line and hook.. fishing line and hook., Fishing
line and hook.. fishing line and hook.. Large fishing stakes . ..."
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