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/fˈɪʃɪŋ laɪn/ Listen

Fishing line

noun

A length of cord to which the leader and float and sinker and hook are attached.

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"Fishing line" Quotes from Famous Books

... on a fallen tree in the cloud of smoke from a smudge fire Bell had built for her. She was wearing the oily flying suit he had found in the shed with the plane, and had torn strips from her discarded dress to make a fishing line. The hook was made out of the stiff wire handle of one of the extra gasoline tins. "Hook and leader in one," Bell had observed when he ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

... looking about him, deep down in the sea, and he saw the fishes flitting and snapping about among the sea-wrack and seaweeds round about the fishing line. They bit at the bait, and wriggled and tried to slip off, first a cod, and then a ling, and then a dog-fish. Last of all, a haddock came and stood still there, and chewed the water a little as if it were ...

— Weird Tales from Northern Seas • Jonas Lie

... his trousers, took a fishing line, waded out to the canoes, and tied them together, one behind another, leaving a little slack line between each of them. He then fastened one end of the line to the whaleboat, shoved off, and sprang inside. ...

— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale

... am determined to solve the question. It is my intention to try my luck with my fishing line and hook." ...

— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne

Words linked to "Fishing line" : rig, tackle, cord, night-line, setline, fishing tackle, hand line, handline, trawl line, trawl, fishing rig, spiller, trotline, fishing gear