Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A device for catching fish, made of several hooks fastened back to back, to be dragged or jerked through the water.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish.

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