| 释义 |
▪ I. seine, n.1|seɪn|
Forms: α. 1 seᵹne, 3–8 seyne, 4–7 sayne, 5 seyn, 7–8 sayn, sain(e, sein, 7– seine. β. 7 seene, 7– sean.
[OE. sęᵹne wk. fem. = OS., OHG. segîna:—WGer. *sagīna, a. L. sagēna (whence F. seine), a. Gr. σαγήνη.]
a. A fishing net designed to hang vertically in the water, the ends being drawn together to inclose the fish. (See quot. 1874 in β.)
Also with defining word denoting the kind of seine, as cod seine, herring seine, pilchard seine, shad seine, drift-seine, drag-seine, tuck-seine, etc.
αc950Lindisf. Gosp. John xxi. 11 Næs ðiu segni tosliten [Vulg. non est scissum rete]. a1000Cædmon's Exod. 584 Hi ongunnon sælafe segnum dælan. c1300K. Horn (Laud MS.) 700 Þe fis þat brac þi seyne. a1400–50Wars Alex. 4270 Set we na saynes in þe see, ne sese we na fischis. 1483Cath. Angl. 328/1 A Seyn, sagena. 1602Carew Cornwall i. 30 The Sayne is a net, of about fortie fathome in length, with which they encompasse a part of the Sea, and drawe the same on land by two ropes, fastned at his ends, together with such fish, as lighteth within his precinct. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 35 He hath of his own a Saine to catch fish withall. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 55 They have almost every where the best conveniences for hauling the seyne. 1797Polwhele Hist. Devon I. 120 Herrings..are taken in seines—three tons have been caught at a hawl. 1883C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries (Fish. Exhib. Publ.) 28 A manatee had been caught in a drift-seine near Ajedé.
β1607J. Cowell Interpr., Seane fish,..seemeth to be that fish which is taken with a very great and long net called a seane. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 193 These two holy Epistles are as some seene, or large drag-net. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 11 We had very good Fishing with a Sean. 1874Holdsworth Deep-Sea Fishing 156 Seans may be divided into three classes, namely, the sean proper..the ‘tuck-sean’, and the ‘ground or foot-sean’. All these nets have the same general character... The back or upper edge of the net is buoyed up by corks..; and the foot is weighted with lead to keep it down, so that the net may hang perpendicularly in the water. 1880Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve II. 75 Barnabas had a share in a pilchard sean.
b. to blow up the seine: of a fish, ‘to press against the lead-line in the endeavour to escape’ (Cent. Dict. 1891). to shoot a seine (or seine-net): to throw it out into position.
1698Act 10 Will. III, c. 14 §12 No Person..shall..shoot his..Sayn or Sayns within or upon the Sayn or Sayns of any other Person. 1893Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 71 §14 Any person who shall shoot or work any seine or draft net for salmon in a river across the whole width.
c. attrib. and Comb., as seine fishery, seine fishing, seine-hauling, seine line, seine trawl, seine trawler, seine trawling, seine twine; seine-boat, a boat adapted for carrying and throwing out a seine; † seine-fish, a fish caught in a seine, spec. in Jamaica, the Saury Elops; seine-gang, ‘a body of men engaged in seining, together with their boats and other gear’ (Cent. Dict.); seine-man, one of a seine-gang; seine-needle, a needle with which the meshes of a seine are netted; seine-net = sense 1; also as v. intr., to fish with a seine; hence seine-netter, seine-netting, vbl. n.; seine-roller (see quot.); seine-shooting, the casting of the nets in seine-fishing; seine-tender (see quot.).
1602Carew Cornwall i. 27 b, They haue..*Sayn-boats for taking of Pilcherd. 1874Holdsworth Deep-Sea Fishing 159 The other rope and the whole of the net are put into the stern of the sean-boat.
1603–4Act 1 Jas. I, c. 23 §1 Herringes, Pilchardes and *Seane Fishe. 1725Sloane Jamaica II. 284 Saurus maximus... The Sein-Fish, or Sea-Gally-Wasp.
1874Holdsworth Deep-Sea Fishing 188 St. Ives is especially famous for the extent of its *sean⁓fishery.
1834Tait's Mag. I. 125/2 The difference between drift and *seine fishing. 1883L. Z. Joncas Fish. Canada (Fish. Exhib. Publ.) 23 Seine-fishing for herrings is chiefly carried on by fishermen of Nova Scotia.
1909Moresby Two Admirals 111 Oh, the shooting, the *seine-hauling, the picnics of those enchanted coasts [of Chili].
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 65 *Sean-lines, for fixing the sean-nets, have 18 threads, 6 in a strand. 1879G. B. Goode Catal. Anim. Resources U.S. 97 Seine lines.
1879Holdsworth in Encycl. Brit. IX. 254/2 The *seanmen receive certain wages in money and a share of the fish.
1879G. B. Goode Catal. Anim. Resources U.S. 131 *Seine-needle.
1603Owen Pembrokesh. (1891) 117 Taken..in a *sayne nette, drawne after euerye tide. 1898S. Evans Holy Graal 41 A fetch that will bring them all safe home with a seine-net full of fish.
1961*Seine-net v. [see nephrops].
1947A. C. Hardy Seafood Ships vii. 99 The *seine netter..is invariably under 100 ft. long and of wooden construction. 1970Cape Times 28 Oct. (S.A. Fishing Rev.) 1/2 The days when trawlers and seine-netters could make maximum hauls virtually on their doorsteps are over.
1905J. Johnstone Brit. Fisheries p. xxviii, This latter method of *seine-netting brings us to the consideration of the methods of the inshore or longshore man. 1977Grimsby Even. Tel. 14 May 7/7 A list of..stretches of water to be closed to trawling and seine netting.
1887Goode, etc. Fish. Industr. U.S. v. I. 249 A *seine-roller..is a wooden roller..which revolves on pivots in its ends... The use of this roller is to lessen the friction between the rail of the vessel and the seine, as the latter is being hauled on deck.
1864Mrs. Lloyd Ladies of Polecarrow 29 The first successful *seine-shooting for several long needy years.
1856Olmsted Slave States 351 There are two large seine-boats, in each of which there is one captain, two *seine-tenders, and eight or ten oarsmen. Ibid., The seine-tenders throwing off, until the seine is all cast between them.
1874Holdsworth Deep-Sea Fishing 323 The drift-men may therefore frequently have a chance of success when *sean-trawlers have none.
Ibid. 323 An Act was passed to put an end to *sean-trawling for herrings on the coast of Scotland.
1770Boston Gaz. 13 Mar. 4/2 (Advt.), The right sort of three-threaded *Sein Twine. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. (ed. 2) 158 Seine twine.
▪ II. † seine, n.2 Obs. rare.
[OE. seᵹn, ad. L. signum sign n.]
A banner.
Beowulf 2958 Þa wæs æht boden Sweona leodum, seᵹn Hiᵹelace. c1275Lay. 9282 Nam he his seine and his sceald briþte.
▪ III. † seine, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ME. seine (disyllable), perh. a. OF. sené wise, assimilated to the rime-word meyne meiny.]
? Grave, sober.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11447 Faire þey come..Wyþ softe pas & fulle seine [Wace, Petit pas, ordeneement] Gret þei Arthur & his meyne.
▪ IV. seine, v.|seɪn|
Also sean.
[f. seine n.1]
a. intr. To fish or catch fish with a seine.
b. trans. To catch with a seine, also to use a seine in.
1836[implied in seining, vbl. n.] 1863Rep. Sea Fisheries Comm. (1865) II. 432/1 Were you in the habit of seining for herrings every season? 1887Goode, etc. Fish. Industr. U.S. v. I. 260 The fact of mackerel being seined at night could not long be kept a secret. 1890Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 1/2 To send a fleet..to ‘seine’ the bay for herring for bait.
Hence seined ppl. a.; ˈseining vbl. n. and ppl. a.
18361st Rep. Ir. Fisheries 152 Seaning seldom commences before June or July. 1874Holdsworth Deep-Sea Fishing 189 The seaning ground is on the western side of the bay. 1876Goode Fishes of Bermudas 10 Row-boats filled with small seined fish may be found at the quay. 1887Goode, etc. Fish. Industr. U.S. v. I. 267 A seining schooner. 1900Field 18 Aug. 297/3, I was anxious to follow up my seining operations.
▪ V. seine
see see v., sene a. Obs., syne. |