| 单词 | pursing line |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspursing line attributive. Designating any of various items used in manipulating a purse seine (cf. purse v. 7), as pursing block, pursing line, pursing weight, etc. ΚΠ 1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 130 The pursing weight varies from 100 to 150 pounds. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June Supp. Her rowlocks, pursing-gear &c. are nickel-plated. 1890 Cent. Dict. 4860/2 Pursing-block, a block used in hauling in the pursing-line or bridle of a purse-seine. 1952 R. L. Carson Under Sea-wind xii. 155 He helped..fit the threehundred-pound tom over the pursing lines, and start it sliding down the rope to close the open circle in the bottom of the net. 1995 P. Harris in R. J. Footitt & A. S. Lewis Canning of Fish & Meat (1999) i. 6 The pursing line and the line attached to the headline are recovered from the buoy. < as lemmas |
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