1. A deep-sea fishing-line.
1876. Rep. Crab & Lobster Fisheries Scot., App. I. 15. Every third hook on the long lines is baited with crabs.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 176. Long Lines, Hand Lines,… Deep Sea Lines.
1883. G. B. Goode, Fish. Industry U.S.A., 13 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.). The much more general use of the trawl-line or long-line.
2. attrib. a. Written or printed with long lines. b. Furnished with or using long-lines (sense 1).
1755. Advt., in Whole Duty Man. A Long-line Octavo Common-Prayer.
1849. Ticknor, Sp. Lit., III. 16. The old long-line stanza.
1877. Holdsworth, Sea Fisheries, 79. Dog-fish are the great enemies of the long-line fishermen.
1894. Pall Mall Gaz., 5 Dec., 3/1. Scotch long-line boats were lent early this year to the Donegal fishermen, who were encouraged to fish further out.
Hence Long-lining, fishing with long-lines.
1877. Holdsworth, Sea Fisheries, 71. Long-lining from Grimsby is worked by means of large smacks.
1885. St. James’s Gaz., 28 Feb., 4/2. Three fishermen have been drowned at Scarborough while long-lining.
