longline
longline adjective: longer than usual; especially reaching to the hips.
Adjective
longline (not comparable)
- longer than usual; especially reaching to the hips
- Strapless longline bra, with wired underbust and flexible boning, smooths womanly curves.1953, Farm Journal, volume 77
- In the dressing room, the smiling attendant helped her into the longline corset with its built-in bra.2007, Solange Ayre, One Thousand Brides, page 5
Noun (1)
longline (plural longlines)
- Gear consisting of a long and thick mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods or gangions.
- A long cable used to raise or lower loads from a helicopter when landing is not possible.
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.
- 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.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144
Noun (2)
longline (plural longlines)
- A slackline which runs a considerable distance
Forms of longline
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | long-line |
| Noun | |
| plural | longlines |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | longlines |
| present participle | longlining |
| past participle | longlined |
| past | longlined |
Origin of longline
From long + line.
Blend of long + slackline.
Words formed from longline
Questions about longline
- What does longline mean?
- Longline means longer than usual; especially reaching to the hips.
- What part of speech is longline?
- Longline can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
Words near longline in the dictionary
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