cross-lining

Updated: May 22, 2025

But other bees have followed our scent, and it is not many minutes before a second line to the woods is established. This is called cross-lining the bees. The new line makes a sharp angle with the other line, and we know at once that the tree is only a few rods in the woods.

John Burroughs - The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

Others, such as rake-hooking, cross-lining, and decking salmon out of shallow water, were mere poaching devices with little redeeming virtue, commending themselves to nobody, except as a means of filling the pot.

Jeanie Lang - Stories of the Border Marches

But other bees have followed our scent, and it is not many minutes before a second line to the woods is established. This is called cross-lining the bees. The new line makes a sharp angle with the other line, and we know at once that the tree is only a few rods into the woods.

John Burroughs - Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers