Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of trawl-line, consisting of a stout cord, commonly one or two hundred yards long, with baited hooks attached by short lines at intervals of two or three feet.
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Examples
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Coke bottles and good trot-line string with hooks for same.
Jug Fishing? 2009
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Coke bottles and good trot-line string with hooks for same.
Jug Fishing? 2009
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Pretty soon I found a man out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot-line.
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This blockade was facetiously called by the men, "Pillow's trot-line."
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It was our custom to stretch a stout trot-line across this stream, tying to this short lines, each with a suitable hook attached, about three feet apart.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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They were chained six and six together; a small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each, and this was fastened to the main chain by a shorter one, at a convenient distance from the others, so that the negroes were strung together like so many fish upon a trot-line.
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913
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Meeting Fishhead one day in the spring on the spindly scaffolding of the skiff landing at Walnut Log, and being themselves far overtaken in liquor and vainglorious with a bogus alcoholic substitute for courage, the brothers had accused him, wantonly and without proof, of running their trot-line and stripping it of the hooked catch -- an unforgivable sin among the water dwellers and the shanty boaters of the South.
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Pretty soon I found a man out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot-line.
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They were chained six and six together; a small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each, and this was fastened to the main chain by a shorter one, at a convenient distance from the others, so that the negroes were strung together like so many fish upon a trot-line.
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Pretty soon I found a man out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot-line.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
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