fishline

or fishing line

[ fish-lahyn ]

noun

1. a line attached to a fishhook used in fishing. fish.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fishline¹

An Americanism dating back to 1630–40; fish + line ¹

Example Sentences

Aware that when he arrived he had found the door to the bedroom open, Aureliano went across the porch which was saturated with the morning sighs of oregano and looked into the dining room, where the remnants of the birth still lay: the large pot, the bloody sheets, the jars of ashes, and the twisted umbilical cord of the child on an opened diaper on the table next to the shears and the fishline.

From Literature

He wandered by the sea from the border north as far as San Luis Obispo, and he learned to pilfer the tide pools for abalones and eels and mussels and perch, to dig the sandbars for clams, and to trap a rabbit in the dunes with a noose of fishline.

From Literature

Passing through the orchard, Mr. Clutter proceeded along beside the river, which was shallow here and strewn with islands— midstream beaches of soft sand, to which, on Sundays gone by, hot-weather Sabbaths when Bonnie had still “felt up to things,” picnic baskets had been carted, family afternoons whiled away waiting for a twitch at the end of a fishline.

From Literature

There was a pocket for fishline and flies; another pocket jammed tight with first aid equipment, a snakebite kit, a small whetstone, and other necessities of outdoor life.

From Literature

“Berries? Trout? He don’t have no fishline.”

From Literature