What is "harpoon line"

Usage examples of "harpoon line".

A whale wounded (as we afterwards learned) in this part, but not effectually, as it seemed, had broken away from the boat, carrying along with him half of the harpoon line.

As water poured in, Chase cut the harpoon line with a hatchet and ordered the men to stuff their coats and shirts into the jagged opening.

But he cleared the harpoon line and let it run slowly through his raw hands and, when he could see, he saw the fish was on his back with his silver belly up.

A dozen strokes later, he came to the end of the harpoon line and felt the ballista dragging through the water behind him.

He glanced back to see a barbed hook tugging at the flesh of his thigh, the dark stripe of harpoon line stretched taut behind him.

The galley had plunged into its hull, creating a massive hole before itself shattering, the prow with its harpoon line snapping off and vanishing within the ship's lower decks.

The Poaflias shook and leapt like a Dweller child on the end of a harpoon line.

Then the harpoon line came taut and the ray showed, pulling away from him while its tail, in reflex aggression, lashed again and again over the body.

The Russian had reloaded and was frantically aiming at a frosted breath-cloud, his harpoon line coiled like snakes on a spool.

The ocean, falling back from it, nearly capsized the tiny boat pulled by the harpoon line.

The child began reeling himself industriously along the trembling harpoon line, trailing a bigger rope.