Definition of "fish-line" [fish-line]

• A line used to catch fish. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was Sunday morning, so that the crew, except for working the ship, had its time to itself, and soon the carpenter, with a rope for a fish-line and a great iron hook baited with a chunk of salt pork the size of my head, captured first one, and then the other, of the monsters."
• "The primary sound is produced by a bow of nylon fish-line, which is rosined, and that's just threaded under the piano string and across it."
• "I admired his sullen face, the mechanism of his jaw, and then I saw that from his lower lip — if you could call it a lip — grim, wet, and weaponlike, hung five old pieces of fish-line, or four, and a wire leader with the swivel still attached, with all their five big hooks grown firmly in his mouth."