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Definition of Fishlines
1. fishline [n] - See also: fishline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishlines
Literary usage of Fishlines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the History of Attleborough: From Its Settlement to the Division by John Daggett, Amelia Daggett Shellfield (1894)
"The company manufactures worsted dress braids, alpaca braids, mohair coat bindings,
and silk, linen, and cotton braided fishlines. These are all of the best ..."
2. The Eskimo Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins (1914)
"He made salmon-spears, and bird-darts, and fishlines, and he ornamented his
weapons with little pictures or patterns. He carved two frogs on the handle of ..."
3. Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot by George Byron Merrick (1909)
"With a "hunk" of bread in their pockets, some matches to kindle a fire, a gun
and fishlines, they never were in danger of starvation, although always hungry ..."
4. The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, A.D. 1602, to by William Durkee Williamson (1832)
"... and when they saw they were falling astern of their competitors, a number of
them, in a dozen canoes, by means of fishlines, undertook to tow her ahead. ..."
5. Reminiscences of a Diplomatist's Wife: Further Reminiscences of a by Hugh Fraser (1912)
"... though, is by means of long fishlines to the end of which are attached a
cluster of enormous hooks. These they throw through the gratings of open ..."
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