long linen.
/ˈlɒŋ lʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋ ˌlaɪn/, /ˈlɑŋ ˌlaɪn/ 1. Fishing. Now frequently in form longline. A long fishing line, spec. a (typically deep-sea) fishing line from which are suspended many short lines with baited hooks.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > deep-sea long-line
great line1567
long line1688
sea-line1828
tow1834
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 103/1 A Snigleing, or Prokeing Stick: is a forked stick, and a short long Line with a Needle Bated with a Lob Worm; It is only for Eels in their holes.
1693 in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. II. iv. 17 There is also the Hook and Bait-fishing up and down with long Lines; the Train and Hand-Nets, &c.
1787 G. Pitcairn Retrosp. View Scots Fisheries (ed. 2) vii. 117 In fishing with the long line out, without the sight of land, they must keep constantly near them.
1850 in Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Dublin 1 (1860) 134 Mr. O'Connell had noticed this character of sole taken on long lines off Darrynane.
1877 Rep. Crab & Lobster Fisheries App. i. 15 in Parl. Papers (C. 1695) XXIV. 1 Every third hook on the long lines is baited with crabs.
1883 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. 13 The much more general use of the trawl-line or long-line.
1906 Country Life 7 Apr. 484/2 The small handliner is more in evidence [on the coast of Scotland] than those who combine with longlines.
1955 Pop. Mech. Mag. Sept. 133/2 The Scofield fished deeper, with a ‘long line’ of eight or nine miles in length.
2003 Daily Tel. 15 May 4/4 Whereas longlines used to catch 10 fish per 100 hooks, now they are lucky to catch one.
2. Bibliography and Palaeography. A line of manuscript or type that runs across the page without columnar division.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [adjective] > printed with long lines
long line1693
society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > line > continuous or without columns
long line1693
1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana ii. 29 Nor doe I love..to make that short-lined by epitomizing it..which I desire should be long-lined.]
1693 W. Wotton tr. L. E. Du Pin New Hist. Eccl. Writers III. 207 This Gothick Edition [of Augustine's works] was followed..by that of Paris, in 1515. with long Lines [Fr. à longue ligne].
1751 Catal. Libraries Edward Webbe 194 Long lines, large print, ruled, bound in blue turkey.
1792 B. White et al. Catal. Coll. Bks. in Every Lang. 252 Common Prayer and Psalms, elegantly printed in long lines by Jarvis.
1814 T. H. Horne Introd. Study Bibliogr. II. App. p. li It consists of 12 leaves, with 36 long lines in each entire page.
1899 Book-prices Current 13 145 Manuscript on vellum..written in a very neat roman letter, by an Italian scribe, long lines.
1939 W. H. P. Hatch Princ. Uncial Manuscripts New Test. 17 It was soon found that a wide column and a long line are more convenient for the reader.
1964 R. J. Dean & M. D. Legge Rule of St. Benedict p. xviii The Douce Rule has thirty long lines to the page.
2008 Stud. in Bibliogr. 2005–6 57 64 This is succeeded by a set of sermons in long lines.
3. Prosody. In Old and Middle English and other Germanic alliterative verse: two half-lines considered as a unit.The two half-lines, divided by a caesura, each feature a fixed number of stressed syllables linked by alliteration.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > line > long line
long verse1565
long line1810
1810 H. Weber Metrical Romances I. Introd. p. xxxi 1250 long lines, in the same alliterative measure which is used in Pierce Ploughman's Visions.
1868 W. W. Skeat in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS III. p. xxiv There has been much discussion as to whether alliterative poems should be printed in couplets of short lines, or in long lines comprising two sections.
1877 H. Rehrmann Ess. Anglo-Saxon Poetry 9 All words of a long line are fit for alliteration that distinguish themselves in the verse by natural gravity or grammatical accent.
1929 W. E. Leonard in K. Malone & M. B. Ruud Stud. in Eng. Philol. in Honor of F. Klaeber 7 The law of the meter remains, an eight-beat long-line.
1970 Rev. Eng. Stud. 21 133 The metrical division between two verses (hemistichs) of an alliterative long line.
1992 O. W. Robinson Old Eng. & Closest Relatives v. 109 An alliterative epic poem of almost six thousand long lines.
Compounds
General attributive.
a. In sense 1, as longline fishing, longline fisherman, etc.
ΚΠ
1786 Edinb. Evening Courant 18 Sept. 1/3 By the long line method of fishing, the hooks and bait must lie at the bottom.
1877 E. W. H. Holdsworth Sea Fisheries 79 Dogfish are the great enemies of the long-line fishermen.
1894 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Dec. 3/1 Scotch long-line boats were lent early this year to the Donegal fishermen, who were encouraged to fish further out.
1958 New Scientist 17 July 444/1 The long-line fishing technique practised by Japanese fishermen in deep water.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Nov. 8/4 A number of petitions by longline fishermen have been sent to Ottawa.
2004 T. Wheeler Falklands & S. Georgia 148 Longline fishing in Antarctic waters has increased rapidly in recent years.
b. In senses 2 and 3, as long-line layout, long-line stanza, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > relating to or consisting of lines > long-line
long line1748
1748 in R. Allestree Whole Duty of Man (new ed.) Advt. A long Line Octavo, Common-Prayer.
1758 Public Advertiser 4 Nov. Any Gentleman or Lady who chuse the Long-line Duodecimo.
1849 G. Ticknor Hist. Spanish Lit. III. 16 The old long-line stanza.
1974 E. Colledge in J. R. O'Donnell Ess. in Honour of A. C. Pegis 249 There is a skilful alternation between short and long-line stanzas.
1994 T. W. Machan Textual Crit. & Middle Eng. Texts v. 157 The scribe's reasons for reverting here and not on f. 80r to the long-line layout, [etc.].
2003 C. E. Karkov & G. H. Brown Anglo-Saxon Styles 7 The Anglo-Saxons had a marked preference for long-line rather than two-column layout in their vernacular manuscripts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1688