nettedadj.
/ˈnɛtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈnɛdəd/ 1.
a. Made of net or network; fitted with a net.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > with open texture > net > made of
netty1587
netted1647
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 226 With thy netted knapsack, bisket, wine, And bursten-bellied flaggons.
1710 London Gaz. No. 4672/4 Supposed to have robbed..his Master of a Silver netted Purse.
1760 S. Fielding Ophelia II. xxxi. 8 Like Gold, through a netted Purse.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xviii. 70 The well reev'd guns, the netted canopy.
1866 (title) Abridgments of the Specifications relating to Lace and other Looped and Netted Fabrics.
1882 Harper's Mag. Apr. 607/2 The netted [snow-]shoes are rarely used, the twelve-foot-long boards bent up at the end..being liked better.
1936 W. Holtny South Riding iv. ii. 218 Lemon tarts lay on frilled netted d'oylies.
1983 Sports Laws (Diagram Group) 216 The players use netted sticks (Crosses) to carry, throw, & bat the ball around the field.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Feb. 34/3 A see-through netted blouse and black satin bustier.
b. Arranged like or forming a network.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > like a net or network
netty1587
network1599
meshed1616
retiform1636
reticulate1658
reticulated1665
verricular1706
reticulary1717
retiformous1718
reticular1722
wide-meshed1724
netted1791
reticulating1795
reticuled1824
reticulose1826
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I 95 Long threads of netted gold, and silvery darts, Inlay the Lazuli, and pierce the Quartz.
1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xv. 321 On the strong corselet and the netted mail.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 110 I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 229 At those points where the spiral or netted fibres separate.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 Apr. 3/2 I recommend fencing with netted wire, three feet high, using trees as posts.
1975 S. Heaney North 22 Interlacings elaborate as the netted routes of ancestry and trade.
1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 33 I turn to the hills, climb to survey The pattern of netted walls.
2. Botany and Zoology. Having the surface marked with a network of veins, lines, etc.; reticulate. Frequently in the names of varieties of plant and fruit, esp. melon.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > ridge channel > [adjective] > covered with a network of lines
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1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Anona These Flowers are succeeded by conical squamous or netted Fruit.
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 279 Pepo Indicus reticulatus..i.e. Netted Melons, or Pompkins.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 502 Morel is a Fungus that is reticulate or netted all over the outside or upper surface.
1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §143 Reticulated or netted leaves, in which there is an angular net-work of vessels.
1854 Encycl. Brit. V. 181/1 Anona reticulata [yields] the netted Custard-apple.
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 229 The plant is sometimes called Netted Crocus.
1896 Longman's Mag. Nov. 45 The netted willow..sends up twiggy shoots from a prostrate stem.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 98/1 The origin of some of the chief modern races [of melon], such as ‘cantaloupe’, ‘Dudairn’, and probably the netted sorts, is due to Persia and the neighbouring regions.
1963 E. Worrell Reptiles Austral. Pl. 32 (caption) Central Netted Dragon, Amphibolurus reticulatus inermis, grows to about 12 inches and digs its own burrows.
1971 D. Nichols & J. A. L. Cooke Oxf. Bk. Invertebr. 62/1 Agriolimax reticulatus (Netted Slug) is our commonest British slug.
1983 S. Plant tr. M. Moser Keys to Agarics & Boleti 28 Stipe coarsely netted, sometimes broadly clavate.
1999 Waitrose Food Illustr. July 19/1 Musk or ‘netted’ melons, such as Galia, vary in colour but all have a raised pattern.
3. Covered with a net; enclosed in a net.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > with other specific coverings
featheredc1300
overskail1508
briereda1554
stone-faced1632
sodded1652
netted1800
foamed1820
fibre-faceda1884
1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 335 Netted frames, resembling the flakes used in Yorkshire for drying oat-cakes.
1811 W. Scott Don Roderick xxxiii. 35 He conscious of his broidered cap and band, She of her netted locks and light corsette.
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 23/2 Beaver-tail (Mid.-class, 1860). A feminine mode of wearing the back-hair, turned up loose in a fine thread net..which fell well on to the shoulders... Obviously from the shape of the netted hair [compared] to a beaver's flat and comparatively shapeless tail.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. May 755/1 A burka with netted eyeholes.
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird viii. 106 We saw the trucks going by from the big netted nursery... Trucks full of potted plants.
1982 P. Fitzgerald At Freddie's iii. 23 Piles of netted carrots..were often waiting in the colonnade of the Opera itself.
4. Caught in a net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [adjective] > caught in a net
netted1809
1809 W. Scott Poacher 16 Our buckskinn'd justices expound the law,..And for the netted partridge noose the swain.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh ii. 83 Need you tremble and pant Like a netted lioness?
1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom vii. 19 As in the toils A netted bird.
1946 Pac Fisherman Yearbk. 167 The seiner Silver Spray, which delivered several fares of netted tuna.
1988 B. Smithson Rabbiting 76 Netted rabbits are far and away more saleable.
1992 In-Fisherman Feb. 97/3 Muskies remember, if the behaviour of netted muskies or the reactions of four different transmitter fish are any indication.
Compounds
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netted-veined adj.
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1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. ii. 44 Ciconium reticulatum, netted-veined Ciconium.
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 56 Netted-veined leaves belong to plants which have a pair of seed-leaves or cotyledons.
1960 K. Esau Anat. Seed Plants vii. 72 In the netted-veined leaves, as in most dicotyledons, different developmental stages are mixed in a mosaic fashion.
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netted dog-whelk n. a carnivorous gastropod mollusc, Nassarius reticulatus (family Nassariidae) with a light brown beaded shell, common to European seashores; see dog whelk n.
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1901 E. Step Shell Life ii. 35 The Netted Dog-whelk lives on sandy shores... The upper surface of the animal is dotted with dark spots that closely resemble grains of sand.
1988 E. Wood et al. Sea Life Brit. & Ireland 140 (caption) The netted dogwhelk is a scavenger with excellent powers of detection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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