DCHP-1 Online
longliner Fisheries 
n. a fishing vessel that uses long-lines.
See also: long-line
- 1955 Three new longliners are now under construction. . . .
- 1959 Ground-fishing operations--draggers with their great, bottom-scraping nets, and longliners with multiple lines armed with hundreds of baited hooks--were the principle targets.
- 1966 Three fishermen from Nova Scotia aboard the 42-foot longliner Maureen Rose set their lines in the North Atlantic fishing grounds, and turned in for the night.
- 1955 Three new longliners are now under construction. . . .