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Ms. Norwood came up with a device made of reflective disks — suspended on fishing-line swivels — that would spin on a weather balloon and could be tracked by radar.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

Numbers has been out of work since March 25, when the coronavirus outbreak eliminated her night shift job at a fishing-line factory in Grand Junction.

From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2020

I've only given a basketful to Ezra Lee—he lent us his fishing-line when we lost ours—and an apronful to Cissy Mount.

From Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

A Manx or Erse term for a strong fishing-line made of black hair snoods.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Each one had a fishing-line and hooks, and Harry and Tom each took a fishing-pole—two poles being as many as were needed, since most of the fishing would probably be done with drop-lines.

From Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various