harpoon line

1. 1.

   a strong rope for making the catch fast to the harpooner's boat

   Broaderrope

   Part ofharpoon

Questions about harpoon line

What does harpoon line mean?

harpoon line means "a strong rope for making the catch fast to the harpooner's boat".

Is harpoon line a common word?

harpoon line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.