hand line
1
5.6
- noun
- Specialized
:
línea de mano
- On a small scale, commercial fishermen from mainly Port Monmouth-Belford and Highlands caught bluefish in channels at the eastern end of the bay and in the nearby ocean using hand lines.
- using a hand line
Examples
-
Considering food fishes, they used the hand line, haul seine, and fyke net in most, if not all, of the 1800s and undoubtedly caught only a small portion of the fish available.
Academic text (1990) -
She successfully caught a large catfish using her hand line while sitting on the bank.
-
I fish hand line, I show him same time.
-
By this time tomorrow, we'll be fishing 72-hour stretches, hand line.
-
Or we might fill faster if our Jonah-catcher... would throw away his hand line and bend on a trawl for once.
-
He fishes hand line.
-
The crews of a fleet of about 80 smacks, whose port was near Fulton Market, caught bluefish and cod in the ocean using hand lines.
Academic text (1990) -
Oh, well, don't take this personal or nothing, Perez, but when all you got is a hand line and a scrap of squid for fishing, you really can't be going after whales.
-
The fisherman cast his hand line into the river, hoping to catch some trout.
-
Using a hand line is a simple technique for fishing without the need for a rod.
Synonyms
∞
1.1
A long thin rope or wire used to carry things
11
2.0
A strong thin string used to catch fish with a hook
A fishing line you hold and pull by hand instead of using a rod
A strong thin cord used to catch fish with a fishing rod
How Operated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a fishing line operated by hand' is directly and transparently composed from 'hand' (by hand) + 'line' (a cord), with no idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension. This straightforward noun–noun compound follows common compounding patterns and would be readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The noun hand line comes from the simple image of a fishing line held in the hand instead of on a rod or reel. Fishermen pull the line by hand, so hand line means 'a fishing line that is used and pulled by hand'.