Meanings
nounline fish (plural line fishes or line fish)
plural line fishes
- Fish caught by line fishing.
The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.
1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)
Cite this entry
APA
line fish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/line%20fish
MLA
“line fish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/line%20fish. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “line fish,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/line%20fish.
Source: line fish on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.