Before they came into sight she pulled a weighted line from round her waist and balanced it between her hands.

There was that interminable-seeming wait while the ship drifted up over the weighted line.

It is often a weighted line, though there may be times when this is not required.

McCain lowered a weighted line, which bottomed at ten feet or so.

We baited the kids' hooks and dropped their heavily weighted lines in the water.

The belly hatch slid open and a weighted line shot out toward him.

A gun inside the door fired a weighted line high into the air.

Several of his men ran forward, swinging weighted lines.

Patch cast a weighted line over the side, noting its progress.

Water depths have traditionally been measured this way using a weighted sounding line.