longline

See also: long line

English

Etymology 1

long +‎ line

Alternative forms

• long-line

Adjective

longline (not comparable)

1. (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 mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods (or gangions)

Related terms

• pelagic longline: hangs near sea surface
• demersal longline: sets along sea floor

Translations

very long fishing line with multiple hooks

• Catalan: palangre (ca) m
• Dutch: beug (nl) f
• Finnish: pitkäsiima (fi)
• French: palangre (fr) f
• Galician: palangre m, engarrapeixes m, pincheiro m, tala f
• German: Langleine f
• Greek: παραγάδι (el) n (paragádi)
• Hungarian: horogsor
• Japanese: 延縄 (はえなわ, haenawa)
• Spanish: palangre m
• Swedish: långrev n

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

• long line (in mathematics)