Associations to the word «Handline»

Wiktionary

HANDLINE, verb. (angling) To fish with a single fishing line held in the hands.
HANDLINE, noun. (angling) A single fishing line held in the hands.

Dictionary definition

HANDLINE, noun. A fishing line managed principally by hand.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope