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handliner†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a fisherman who uses a handline.
See: hook-and-line man
Quotations
1955
The hand-liner fishes from a rowing-boat, using lines like thin clothes lines to which are attached not only lures but also heavy lead weights to take the lures fathoms deep.
1958
. . . he once spent a season or two as a hand-liner . . . with his hands on the oar looms of a patched rowboat and the end of his lines wrapped around his legs.