hook-and-line man

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Nfld

a fisherman who uses a handline.

Quotations

1905

Often . . . the hook-and-line man fishes his eighty years of life, and dies in his bed as cheerfully as he has lived and as poor as he was born.

1916

"With me, Tom?" said Sam. "That's a saucy notion for a hook-an'-line man."