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Definition of Hand line
1. Noun. A fishing line managed principally by hand.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Line
Literary usage of Hand line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Merchant Service: Being a History of the British Mercantile by R. J. Cornewall-Jones (1898)
"... wheel—Steering—Work aloft—Heaving the log—Patent logs—Heaving the lead—The
lead-line —Hand-line—Deep-sea lead—Deep-sea soundings—Sounding-machines. ..."
2. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... used for the purpose of running out baits (artificial, or otherwise) across
any portion of any lake or river, and whether used with a hand-line or as ..."
3. The Moor and the Loch: Containing Minute Instructions in All Highland Sports by John Colquhoun (1851)
"All the art of the hand-line is to pull up the instant you feel a bite, ...
Hand-line fishing may be followed at any time, but is best at the flow of the ..."
4. Practical Least Squares by Ora Miner Leland (1921)
"other two, one will be the left-hand line and the other, the right- hand line,
as we look into the figure, from the station towards the pole, ..."
5. The Fundamentals of Mechanical Drawing by Richard Shelton Kirby (1918)
"Number down on the /e/i-hand line and up on the right-hand line. Mark a point A,
the middle point of the left-hand side, and B, the middle point of the ..."
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