longline
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See also: long line
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]longline (not comparable)
- (clothing) longer than usual; especially reaching to the hips
- 1953, Farm Journal, volume 77:
- Strapless longline bra, with wired underbust and flexible boning, smooths womanly curves.
- 2007, Solange Ayre, One Thousand Brides, page 5:
- In the dressing room, the smiling attendant helped her into the longline corset with its built-in bra.
Noun
[edit]longline (plural longlines)
- (fishing) gear consisting of a long and thick mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods (or gangions)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]very long fishing line with multiple hooks
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Verb
[edit]longline (third-person singular simple present longlines, present participle longlining, simple past and past participle longlined)
- To fish with a line of this kind.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:
- The Japanese, always on the prowl for something else to take out of the sea, have been longlining sharks for years, and eating them in a variety of ways.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]longline (plural longlines)
- A slackline which runs a considerable distance
See also
[edit]- long line (in mathematics)