HANDLINE

handline, hand line

(noun) a fishing line managed principally by hand

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

handline (plural handlines)

(angling) A single fishing line without a rod, but usually attached to a reel, held in the hands.

A firefighting hose held and directed by a team of people.

Verb

handline (third-person singular simple present handlines, present participle handlining, simple past and past participle handlined)

(angling) To fish with a single fishing line held in the hands.

Source: Wiktionary



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CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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