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bultow
[? < Brit. dial. (Cornish) bulter, bultey a kind of longline]
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:bulltow
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n.
a type of hand line used in coastal fishing. See 1849 quote.
See: long-line
Quotations
1849
The "bultow" is described as a long line, with hooks fastened along its whole length, at regular distances, by shorter and smaller cords called snoods, which are six feet long, and are placed on the long line twelve feet apart, to prevent the hooks becoming entangled.
1952
The fish are caught by hand lines, trawl lines, "bulltows" or codnets.
1963
BULTOW, n. A line with hooks; a trawl.