What is "longliner"

Usage examples of "longliner".

Tommy punch the numbers into the radar as the longliner skipper read them off.

Kea had seen of the longliners that hung off Earth, or the torchships that sat like so many oranges, torches underwater, out beyond the barrier.

Fifty or so longliners had set sail into the unknown, and those who had managed to message back reported emptiness beyond, and horror and degeneracy within.

Commercial fishing boats do go down every season--salmon seiners, longliners, crabbers.

Emperor was one stage above the suspended animation the early longliners had used, the animation that had killed most of the passengers and crew on those monster ships that had stumbled out from Earth for the nearest stars before stardrive had been devised, and before AM2 had been discovered to make that drive a practicality.

Reading of the murders, mutinies, and worse aberrancies, particularly on the pre-stardrive longliners, told him they didn’t.

There were power dories, skiffs, longliners and even a few rowboats with youngsters at the oars.

On August 26, the captain found good water as well as an open area among the other swordfish longliners, and we were to set that evening.

Some longliners went out after swordfish anyway, but they risked having their catch seized and tested by the F.

A longliner drifted toward the fish plant, a figure in yellow oilskins leaning on the rail staring into dimpled water the color of motor oil.