What is "longline"

Usage examples of "longline".

It would be most accurate, but still very incomplete, to say that when he got back to the Longline the younger traveller held a much more tolerant attitude toward the boring aspects of space-casting than had been the case earlier.

Garabed was not actually the first to detect impulses from the Longline, he was certainly the first to believe that those impulses constituted genuine, objective data rather than instrumental artifacts.

Therefore, the Longline continued to emit its own neutrino bursts as it left the neutron star and when it made its reversal some three hundred thousand kilometers away.

Then in the dim candlelight, she kicked off her shoes and struggled out of the green formal and the slips, and the longline bra, and the nylons.

New extra-gentle Ubik bra and longline Ubik special bra means, Lift your arms and be all at once curvier!

The children, were attentive: the Teaching was always better then gutting and preserving fish, or net mending, and longline baiting.

The deep V-neck of her blouse was torn, and some of a black longline bra showed.

Then when they tried to get me to paddle my board out to hassle some longline tuna boats, I ran away and joined the navy.

Most military communications systems are hardened, but virtually all the geostationary communications satellites are vulnerable, as are all broadcasting facilities, all uplinks and downlinks, most telephone systems based on satellite longlines and high-speed multiplexing switches, broadcast systems, and.

Load a few tons of gear onto the deck, take a little water in her bilge, shift from longlining to dragging to gillnetting, and the dynamics of the ship change completely.

Huddled up against it are bins full of ball drops, highflyers, radio beacons—everything that hangs off a longline.

Each of the radio beacon buoys costs $1,800, and there are six of them on a longline.