Wiktionary
n. A fishing line.
Usage examples of "fishline".
He removed the pair of thumbtacks to the right of the bolt, and the length of fishline which had passed over them, from the head of the bolt, back through the crack between door and doorframe.
He tested the tacks on the other side, and the piece of fishline which would shoot the bolt again after he got back into his room.
Like flicking fishline over water, to see if anything was jumping beneath the surface.
Tomorrow, Snuffy thought, or the next day, or whenevef the chotas and the trigger-happy posse got out of there, he would head into the hills for a spell with his sleeping bag, a lid of Mary Jane, some fishline, and a dozen artificial flies.
A Mesklinite hanging on a rope about the thickness of a six-pound nylon fishline, and free to swing pendulum-style in forty Earth gravities, is quite a sight even when the distance he has to climb is not much greater than his own body length.
When he was through, she pulled the fishline through the holes, knotting each one until the two tunics together formed a makeshift shelter over their heads and shoulders.
The wait would no doubt be tedious, but hardly life-threatening, and if he got bored he could use his fishline and markers to map the caverns.
She could still make out the walls and ceiling--or thought she could--but the thread of wizardlight blurred and vanished like a fishline plunging into the sea.
Kesshoo made knives and queer spoons out of bone or ivory for Koolee, and for himself he made new barbs for his bladder-dart, new bone hooks for fishlines, and all sorts of things for hunting.
He made salmon spears, and bird darts, and fishlines, and he ornamented his weapons with little pictures or patterns.
She pushed the realization of what this might mean away as hard as she could and, setting her jaw, picked a path gingerly across the reef to check the fishlines Erno had set the night before.
There had been nothing to eat except milk since breakfast, for the yams were exhausted and Pork’s snares and fishlines had yielded nothing.
The snares Pork set for rabbits had to be visited twice a day and the fishlines in the river rebaited.
Janney a lively kiss, he stole her scissors, her needles, two of her husband’s shirts and three fishlines with hooks.
Then he looped a length of fishline around the crosspiece of the knife switch and pushed both ends back through the upper hole in the panel from the back.