longline

See also: long line

English

Etymology 1

long +‎ line

Alternative forms

long-line

Adjective

longline (not comparable)

(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)

(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
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)

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)

A slackline which runs a considerable distance