Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A heavy fishing line usually several miles long and having a series of baited hooks.
Wiktionary
- n. A very long fishing line carrying a series of baited hooks.
- adj. Longer than usual; especially reaching to the hips.
Examples
“The longline is a bra attached to a mini-corset so it basically makes you stand up really, really straight. ...”
From Pillbox Hat to Bullet Bra: The Anatomy of a Pan Am Stewardess Uniform
“A longline is a fishing line usually made of monofilament.”
WN.com - Articles related to No more eating shark fin in Hawaii after new law
“The leatherback is listed as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union and scientists warn that it could extinct in the next 5-30 years unless immediate action to remove threats to its survival such as longline fishing.”
“In The Bahamas, a 20-year-old ban on longline fishing gear has left its waters as one of the few places in the world with relatively healthy shark populations.”
The Huffington Post: Matt Rand: Protecting the Sharks of the Bahamas
“We have these undergarments that we wear, a girdle and a longline bra," Ricci told reporters in September.”
From Pillbox Hat to Bullet Bra: The Anatomy of a Pan Am Stewardess Uniform
“And when you have a bullet bra on, which is a longline, you didn't want to be poking through your bra if it was cold if you know what I mean.”
From Pillbox Hat to Bullet Bra: The Anatomy of a Pan Am Stewardess Uniform
“Commercial fisherman Rodney Salomon ensnared an 8-foot-long missile in his longline while out in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City late last month.”
“Each boat had 5 km of longline with 600 to 700 baited hooks in the water.”
Overfishing in the Sea of Cortez: Are sustainable fish farms the solution?
“From January through June, as bluefin return to the Gulf to breed, surface longline fishermen land hundreds of these giant fish.”
The Huffington Post: Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: Creative Ways to Protect Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
“Surface longline fishermen targeting yellowfin tuna and swordfish are permitted to keep up to three bluefin per trip if they are caught incidentally.”
The Huffington Post: Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: Creative Ways to Protect Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘longline’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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PECH - fishing technology
anchor, berth, drop anchor, anchored floating..., artificial restoc..., bait, beam trawls, bottom gillnets, entangling nets, bottom nets, bottom-set nets, bottom pair trawl and 478 more...
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Tuna
tuna, unfortunate, bluefin tuna, albacore, tunny, Fortuna, fortuna, tuna salad, yellowfin tuna, ahi, bigeye tuna, skipjack tuna and 51 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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chained_bear Usage on bultow. Jul 16, 2009