What is "handline"

Usage examples of "handline".

He met the handline there, took hold, regretting gloves had not been part of the arrangement in their shirtsleeve environment, as he followed Kate’s feet out into the bitter chill of the access.

They came, taking the handlines, moving in surprisingly good order and self-assurance for men and women completely unaccustomed to ungravitied space… but their guild left no situation unplanned and devoted their lives to physical preparedness.

He saw a number of atevi exiting on the handlines, all armed, all prepared for trouble, all capable of creating it.

Jase was coming over to them, drifting along a handline, amid many more atevi than there had been.

But Dek took out on the handlines and Sal snagged Ben's arm with: "Now, cher, if we don't keep with Dek and Meg here, diey'll assign us some sheer fool pi-lut we don't know the hell who.

He shied away from it, hooked onto the handline and heard Ben and Sal exit behind him.

He didn't know how much to tell them, didn't want to act like an ass, but he couldn't put his thoughts together—he just grabbed onto the handline and headed off down the tube, not fast, but first, so he didn't have to see their faces.

But Dek took out on the handlines and Sal snagged Ben’s arm with: “Now, cher, if we don’t keep with Dek and Meg here, they’ll assign us some sheer fool pi-lut we don’t know the hell who.

He didn’t know how much to tell them, didn’t want to act like an ass, but he couldn’t put his thoughts together—he just grabbed onto the handline and headed off down the tube, not fast, but first, so he didn’t have to see their faces.

But Dek took out on the handlines and Sal snagged Ben’s arm with: “Now, cher, if we don’t keep with Dek and Meg here, they’ll assign us some sheer fool pi-lut we don’t know the hell who… Do you want to go boom on a rock?

Ilisidi didn’t question, rather proceeded down the handline in the only direction possible.

One end of the monofilament was attached to the type of flat plastic spool used by Cuban handline fishermen.

If you ever get home, with your luck, you could go commercial with a handline, Lamont.

Taking advantage of what would surely be an all-too-brief spell of fine weather, the inshore fishermen - those who fished the local grounds with gill nets, trawls and handlines - were early at work, their small boats no more than distant motes on the metallic mir ror of the sea.