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hook-and-line man 
Nfld a fisherman who uses a handline.
See also: handliner
- 1905 Often . . . the hook-and-line man fishes his eighty years of life, and dies in his bed as cheerfully as he has lived and as poor as he was born.
- 1916 "With me, Tom?" said Sam. "That's a saucy notion for a hook-an'-line man."
- 1905 Often . . . the hook-and-line man fishes his eighty years of life, and dies in his bed as cheerfully as he has lived and as poor as he was born.