night-line

1. 1.

   a fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night

   Broaderfishing line

Questions about night-line

What does night-line mean?

night-line means "a fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night".

How many syllables are in night-line?

night-line has 2 syllables and divides as night--line under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is night-line a common word?

night-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.