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ˈhose-net Chiefly Sc.
A small net resembling a stocking, affixed to a pole (Jam.); fig. a position from which it is difficult to escape.
1552Lyndesay Monarche 4762 They..with their hois net dayly drawis to Rome, The maist fine gold, that is in Christindome. 1589R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament M iv b, Sa..yee haue drawne your selfes in a hose-net, and crucified your messe. 1743Pitt in Anecd. Earl Chatham (1797) I. v. 149 If the French had not..caught our army in a hose net, from which it could not have escaped. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xiii, I had him in a hose-net. |