"get someone in a line" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got:gotten> someone in a line"
      },
      "expansion": "get someone in a line (third-person singular simple present gets someone in a line, present participle getting someone in a line, simple past got someone in a line, past participle got someone in a line or gotten someone in a line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects (volume 33, page 281)",
          "text": "I am afraid they have got me in a line.* In addition to the rest of my troubles, I find this shifting ships and fitting out messes attended with an enormous expense. […] * A common phrase among the seamen at Bitche, meaning to allure or entice."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1826, The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth",
          "text": "He's got the gibbet in his face now. Gad! you have choked him there. Yes, she's got him in a line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hoax or entrap somebody, so as to get some sport out of them."
      ],
      "id": "en-get_someone_in_a_line-en-verb-cATwFLb3",
      "links": [
        [
          "hoax",
          "hoax"
        ],
        [
          "entrap",
          "entrap"
        ],
        [
          "sport",
          "sport"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, slang) To hoax or entrap somebody, so as to get some sport out of them."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "get someone in a line"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten someone in a line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got:gotten> someone in a line"
      },
      "expansion": "get someone in a line (third-person singular simple present gets someone in a line, present participle getting someone in a line, simple past got someone in a line, past participle got someone in a line or gotten someone in a line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects (volume 33, page 281)",
          "text": "I am afraid they have got me in a line.* In addition to the rest of my troubles, I find this shifting ships and fitting out messes attended with an enormous expense. […] * A common phrase among the seamen at Bitche, meaning to allure or entice."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1826, The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth",
          "text": "He's got the gibbet in his face now. Gad! you have choked him there. Yes, she's got him in a line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hoax or entrap somebody, so as to get some sport out of them."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hoax",
          "hoax"
        ],
        [
          "entrap",
          "entrap"
        ],
        [
          "sport",
          "sport"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, slang) To hoax or entrap somebody, so as to get some sport out of them."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "get someone in a line"
}