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From long + line.

• long-line

longline (not comparable)

1. (clothing) longer than usual; especially reaching to the hips
   • 1953, Farm Journal, volume 77:

     Strapless longline bra, with wired underbust and flexible boning, smooths womanly curves.

   • 2007, Solange Ayre, One Thousand Brides, page 5:

     In the dressing room, the smiling attendant helped her into the longline corset with its built-in bra.

longline (plural longlines)

1. (fishing) Gear consisting of a long and thick mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods or gangions.
2. (firefighting) A long cable used to raise or lower loads from a helicopter when landing is not possible.

• pelagic longline: hangs near sea surface
• demersal longline: sets along sea floor

longline (third-person singular simple present longlines, present participle longlining, simple past and past participle longlined)

1. To fish with a line of this kind.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:

     The Japanese, always on the prowl for something else to take out of the sea, have been longlining sharks for years, and eating them in a variety of ways.

Blend of long +‎ slackline.

longline (plural longlines)

1. A slackline which runs a considerable distance

• long line (in mathematics)