"scare-line" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1895, The Locomotive - Volumes 16-17, page 188",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, The National Druggist - Volume 26, page 189",
          "text": "Unfortunately this isn't a scare-line, but a frozen truth, and it behooves every druggist to provide himself with ice-economizers.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism, page 419",
          "text": "I knew for instance, sitting at my desk, just how many extra papers I could sell with a scare-line on a police scandal.",
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        {
          "ref": "1962, Sunder Lal Hora, T. V. R. Pillay, Handbook on fish culture in the Indo-Pacific region",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, Robert Earle Johannes, Words of the Lagoon",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, O. H. Oren, Aquaculture of Grey Mullets, page 330",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776",
          "text": "Did it make any sense, he asked, concluding with administration's favorite scare-line (first used by Rice), “for the world to wait. . . for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud?”",
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        "Alternative form of scare line"
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          "ref": "1895, The Locomotive - Volumes 16-17, page 188",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, The National Druggist - Volume 26, page 189",
          "text": "Unfortunately this isn't a scare-line, but a frozen truth, and it behooves every druggist to provide himself with ice-economizers.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism, page 419",
          "text": "I knew for instance, sitting at my desk, just how many extra papers I could sell with a scare-line on a police scandal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Sunder Lal Hora, T. V. R. Pillay, Handbook on fish culture in the Indo-Pacific region",
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        },
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          "ref": "1981, Robert Earle Johannes, Words of the Lagoon",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, O. H. Oren, Aquaculture of Grey Mullets, page 330",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Did it make any sense, he asked, concluding with administration's favorite scare-line (first used by Rice), “for the world to wait. . . for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud?”",
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