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Fishing device with many hooks
Answer for the clue "Fishing device with many hooks ", 7 letters:
setline
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n. a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) [syn: trawl , trawl line , spiller , trotline ]
Usage examples of setline.
He rigged a setline down on the beach using a doorknob for a sinker and a chicken liver for bait, as he had done as a boy, but at dawn when he pulled in the line there was only a small dead shark tangled in a large clump of seaweed.
Hmong who poached bass from the San Luis Reservoir with 1,550-foot setlines, drove deer into ambushes by banging on pots and pans, and served stewed pied-bill grebe for dinner.