trotline

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long fishing line set in the water with many shorter baited lines and hooks attached

   At dusk, the fisherman checked each hook on the trotline for catfish.

A compound of trot + line, recorded in American English for a fishing line carrying a series of shorter hooked lines. The exact motivation for trot in the compound is uncertain.

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