longline

See also: long line

English

Etymology 1

long +‎ line

Alternative forms
  • long-line

Adjective

longline (not comparable)

  1. (female 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

longline (plural longlines)

  1. (fishing) gear consisting of a long and thick main line, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods (or gangions)
  • pelagic longline: hangs near sea surface
  • demersal longline: sets along sea floor
Translations

Verb

longline (third-person singular simple present longlines, present participle longlining, simple past and past participle longlined)

  1. 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

Blend of long +‎ slackline

Noun

longline (plural longlines)

  1. A slackline which runs a considerable distance

See also
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