DCHP-1 Online
handliner † 
n. a fisherman who uses a handline.
See also: hook-and-line man
- 1955 The hand-liner fishes from a rowing-boat, using lines like thin clothes lines to which are attached not only lures but also heavy lead weights to take the lures fathoms deep.
- 1958 . . . he once spent a season or two as a hand-liner . . . with his hands on the oar looms of a patched rowboat and the end of his lines wrapped around his legs.
- 1955 The hand-liner fishes from a rowing-boat, using lines like thin clothes lines to which are attached not only lures but also heavy lead weights to take the lures fathoms deep.