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Definition of Handline
1. Noun. A fishing line managed principally by hand.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handline
Literary usage of Handline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1883)
"Finmarken handline with gear, rope horse, iron sinker (3^ pounds) snoods, hooks No.
3, used at the Finmarken Shore and Deep Sea Fisheries (hooks and snoods ..."
2. Marine Fire Prevention, Firefighting and Fire Safety: A Comprehensive (1994)
"In some systems, handlines are used exclusively; in this case, up to six handline
stations can be supplied, by each unit. Generally, the hose reels are ..."
3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1873)
"Finding that the wreck wag alongside the pier, to save time the hawser and handline
were taken out of the waggon and hurried along, the entire distance ..."
4. Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry by Frantz Peckel Møller, Peter Møller Heyerdahl (1895)
"Three different kinds of tackle are used in fishing for cod : the net, the
longline, and the handline. The net is considered a recent innovation, ..."
5. Sporting Sketches by Edwyn Sandys (1905)
"The tackle of the free folk must be either the long handline, or the shorter ...
A thirty-yard handline would be a very fair length, and it appears to lie ..."
6. Western Field by Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.), California Game and Fish Protective Association (1905)
"... and fishing with a piece of some lumber schooner's cable for a handline, ...
excuse the handline fisherman has for living is that he fishes for food. ..."
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