hand line

1. 1.

   a fishing line managed principally by hand

   Synonymshandline

   Broaderfishing line

Questions about hand line

What does hand line mean?

hand line means "a fishing line managed principally by hand".

What is another word for hand line?

Close synonyms include handline. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand line a common word?

hand line is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.