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trotline
noun
A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys).
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The son of a vitriolically racist Illinois judge, Finn subsists by running trotlines in the Mississippi and inhabits a riverside house "fit only for dying in".
The few crabbers still working on the river nodded from their boats as we passed by — though they watched that we didn't foul their trotlines.
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