shark-line

Updated: June 21, 2025

But Euphemia was not upon the sea-beach to-day. I walked a mile or so along the sand, but did not find her. She had gone around the little bluff to our shark-line. This was a long rope, like a clothes-line, with a short chain at the end and a great hook, which was baited with a large piece of fish.

Frank Richard Stockton - The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories