"corkline" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "cork + line",
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        {
          "ref": "1957, Special Scientific Report: Fisheries - Issue 205, page 5",
          "text": "Double corklines, one right-hand lay and one left-hand lay to prevent twisting, were used on all gill nets.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America",
          "text": "The porpoise safety panel shall consist of small mesh webbing not to exceed ¼\" stretch mesh extending downward from the corkline and the base of the porpoise apron to a minimum depth equivalent to two strips of 100 meshes of 4¼\" stretch mesh webbing.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, page 103",
          "text": "The hold was empty, without a net, corkline, leadline or buoy to be found.",
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        "The top line of a gillnet, which has attached floats (often, but not always, made of cork) that give that edge of the net buoyancy."
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          "gillnet",
          "gillnet"
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          "float",
          "float"
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          "cork",
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        "(fishing) The top line of a gillnet, which has attached floats (often, but not always, made of cork) that give that edge of the net buoyancy."
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        {
          "word": "cork line"
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      ],
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "upper line of a gillnet",
          "word": "yläpaula"
        },
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          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "upper line of a gillnet",
          "word": "yläselys"
        }
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  "word": "corkline"
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          "ref": "1957, Special Scientific Report: Fisheries - Issue 205, page 5",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America",
          "text": "The porpoise safety panel shall consist of small mesh webbing not to exceed ¼\" stretch mesh extending downward from the corkline and the base of the porpoise apron to a minimum depth equivalent to two strips of 100 meshes of 4¼\" stretch mesh webbing.",
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          "cork",
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        "(fishing) The top line of a gillnet, which has attached floats (often, but not always, made of cork) that give that edge of the net buoyancy."
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    {
      "word": "cork line"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "upper line of a gillnet",
      "word": "yläpaula"
    },
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      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "upper line of a gillnet",
      "word": "yläselys"
    }
  ],
  "word": "corkline"
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