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Trotline

Definition: Trotline

Trotline

Noun

1. A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Trotline

Synonyms: setline (n), spiller (n), trawl (n), trawl line (n). (additional references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trotline

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
trotline	34
trotline fishing	20
make a trotline	9
catfish trotline	3
crab trotline	2
trotline clip	2
supply trotline	2
bait trotline	2
making trotline	2
band trotline	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Trotline

Language		Translations for "trotline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		πετονιά με πολλά άγγιστρα. (various references)

Pig Latin		otlinetray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Trotline

Derivations
	Words beginning with "trotline": trotlines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Trotline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ortolani, Toralien, Totleben, Triklone, troilite, Troitino, Truline, trulite. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Trotline

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: retinol, tortile, triolet, tritone.
	-2 letters: entoil, intort, linter, litten, litter, loiter, neroli, norite, orient, retint, rotten, tilter, tinter, toiler, toilet, tonier, tonlet, torten, triton.
	-3 letters: elint, eloin, enrol, inert, inlet, inter, intro, irone, lento, liner, lirot, liter, litre, loner, lotte, nerol, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, oiler, olein, oriel, otter, relit, reoil, rotte, teloi.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: natrolite, tormentil, trotlines.
	+2 letters: alteration, contritely, intolerant, literation, natrolites, rebottling, replotting, rouletting, tolerating, toleration, tormentils, torrential, tortellini, ventilator.
	+3 letters: alterations, altercation, alternation, contractile, elutriation, intercostal, interpolate, literations, luteotropin, nonliterate, orientalist, overletting, pluripotent, potteringly, reallotting, reluctation, retaliation, teleporting, telocentric, tolerations, tortellinis, totteringly, ventilators, ventilatory.
	+4 letters: acetonitrile, adulteration, alliteration, altercations, alternations, antielectron, contractible, electrotonic, elutriations, exorbitantly, frontalities, intercoastal, intercostals, interlocutor, interorbital, interpolated, interpolates, interpolator, intolerantly, laterization, letterboxing, luteotrophin, luteotropins, metropolitan, nonliterates, noteworthily, obliterating, obliteration, orientalists, outwrestling, overplotting, preallotting, reluctations, repetitional, replantation, reputational, retaliations, reticulation, retinotectal, storytelling, streptolysin, telocentrics, torrentially, ultraviolent.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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