Definition of "dropline" []

• A headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "He smelled the sea and fish on his father, and felt the roughness of hands calloused and cut by the weight of fish caught on a dropline, or "guinea rig," as he'd heard it called, an expression he did not understand."
• "While we were lolling in our boat, half drowsy with the warm stillness of the day and the dullness of our sport, one of our party, a worthy alderman, was overtaken by a slumber, and as he dozed suffered the sinker of his dropline to lie upon the bottom of the river."
• "Distribution: Slackware 12 - dropline Gnome to install and configure workstation you need to be root. instead of using the RPM you need to download the bundle version. opensuse11 is unsupported so you will need a full dev environment installed in order to build the modules."