scare-line

plural scare-lines

1. alternativeAlternative form of scare line.

   I knew for instance, sitting at my desk, just how many extra papers I could sell with a scare-line on a police scandal.

   1928, Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism, →ISBN, page 419

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   But it presently appears that a black cat was the only creature killed outright, and that the scare-line was merely a playful allusion to the extraordinary vitality that fable says all pussies have.

   1895, The Locomotive - Volumes 16-17, page 188

   Unfortunately this isn't a scare-line, but a frozen truth, and it behooves every druggist to provide himself with ice-economizers.

   1896, The National Druggist - Volume 26, page 189

   Fry are collected from sandy regions with gear that consist of a piece of cloth 3 m x 1.2 m and 3 m of rope as a scare-line, with palmyra leaves tied to it at short intervals.

   1962, Sunder Lal Hora, T. V. R. Pillay, Handbook on fish culture in the Indo-Pacific region

   At Ant Atoll near Ponape in the eastern Caroline Islands the palm frond scare-line is used to catch schools of kawa kawa (Euthynnus affinis) which occasionally enter the lagoon and swim along the edge in shallow water.

   1981, Robert Earle Johannes, Words of the Lagoon, →ISBN

   The net is kept open by two men, while the fry are driven into it using a 30-60 m long scare-line made up of rope and palm leaves.

   1981, O. H. Oren, Aquaculture of Grey Mullets, →ISBN, page 330