trotline
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noun
a strong fishing line strung across a stream, or deep into a river, having individual hooks attached by smaller lines at intervals.
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Trotline
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Those that crab with collapsible traps also do not have to worry about crabs falling off a trotline before they can be netted.
Rod and reel anglers grumble because they can't even drift across an open flat without snagging an invisible trotline.
Each trotline shall be marked at both ends with a clearly visible stake or buoy.
Large flathead catfish are occasionally caught by trotline anglers using live fish for bait.
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