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trotlines
n. (plural of trotline English)
Usage examples of "trotlines".
We worked in relative silence, monosyllables, for the first two trotlines, Bill beheading them with such fervor that twice he got the cleaver stuck in the wood.
I set out a dozen at a time, upright, spaced evenly for the trotlines, then turn them on and wait.
Even Marygay and I never spoke of it, not even when we were tending the trotlines, alone out on the ice.
He would take them out on the water to run the trotlines and crawdad traps, fish for catfish and trout and alligator gar and just about anything else they could wrestle aboard a rickety pirogue, including alligators when the game warden wasn't in the parish.