"give someone line" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Referring to the use of a fishing line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives someone line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving someone line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave someone line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given someone line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> someone line"
      },
      "expansion": "give someone line (third-person singular simple present gives someone line, present participle giving someone line, simple past gave someone line, past participle given someone line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fishing",
          "orig": "en:Fishing",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 40",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Cyril Thornton, Conyers Lea:",
          "text": "Give him LINE, boy (as the trout rushed down into the shallows); into the water, boy! the line's nearly run out; it's nowhere up to your knees. Watch him! draw the line up; gently! give him line; give him line—thought so! —I feared so, ' as the line, becoming entangled from drawing it up, snapped, and the fish dashed on blindly into the shallows and stranded.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To unreel more fishing line so that a hooked fish has more freedom to tire itself out."
      ],
      "id": "en-give_someone_line-en-verb-o36F9cX8",
      "links": [
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fishing) To unreel more fishing line so that a hooked fish has more freedom to tire itself out."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fishing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her."
      ],
      "id": "en-give_someone_line-en-verb-HMWXrPG2",
      "links": [
        [
          "liberty",
          "liberty"
        ],
        [
          "convenient",
          "convenient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give someone line"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Referring to the use of a fishing line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives someone line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving someone line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave someone line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given someone line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> someone line"
      },
      "expansion": "give someone line (third-person singular simple present gives someone line, present participle giving someone line, simple past gave someone line, past participle given someone line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Fishing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Cyril Thornton, Conyers Lea:",
          "text": "Give him LINE, boy (as the trout rushed down into the shallows); into the water, boy! the line's nearly run out; it's nowhere up to your knees. Watch him! draw the line up; gently! give him line; give him line—thought so! —I feared so, ' as the line, becoming entangled from drawing it up, snapped, and the fish dashed on blindly into the shallows and stranded.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To unreel more fishing line so that a hooked fish has more freedom to tire itself out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fishing) To unreel more fishing line so that a hooked fish has more freedom to tire itself out."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fishing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "liberty",
          "liberty"
        ],
        [
          "convenient",
          "convenient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give someone line"
}