scare-line
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Unfortunately this isn't a scare-line, but a frozen truth, and it behooves every druggist to provide himself with ice-economizers."
- "I knew for instance, sitting at my desk, just how many extra papers I could sell with a scare-line on a police scandal."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."