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line fish

line fish noun: fish caught by line fishing.

Noun

line fish (plural line fishes or line fish)

  1. Fish caught by line fishing.
    • The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)

Forms of line fish

pluralline fishes
pluralline fish

Questions about line fish

What does line fish mean?
Line fish means fish caught by line fishing.
What part of speech is line fish?
Line fish is a noun.
What is the plural of line fish?
The plural of line fish is line fishes.

Words near line fish in the dictionary

  1. line engravings
  2. line fed
  3. line feed
  4. line feeding
  5. line feeds
  6. line fish
  7. line fisher
  8. line fishers
  9. line fishes
  10. line fishing
  11. line function

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