A fishing line with hooks or bait suspended at intervals, used to catch fish by lowering it into water.
Compound of 'drop' and 'line,' originating in Middle English fishing terminology. The word literally describes a line that is 'dropped' into the water rather than cast.
Medieval and ancient fishermen used droplines for thousands of years—it's one of the oldest fishing techniques, and the word persists because the method is so effective that modern fishing still uses the same basic principle.
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