单词 | overnet |
释义 | overnetv. 1. transitive. Chiefly literary. To spread a net over; to cover with or as with a net. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > fish (a pool, etc.) > overfish overnet1837 overfish1855 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with a net or network net1512 quilt?1611 benet1614 spider-web1823 overnet1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. v. 313 Calonnes, Breteuils hover dim, far-flown; overnetting Europe with intrigues. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. x. 321 Twenty years of world-wide diplomacy, cunningly-devised spider-threads overnetting all the world, have issued here. 1881 F. T. Palgrave Princess Anne in Visions of Eng. 160 As a bird by the fowlers o'ernetted. 2. transitive. To overfish (an area or fish population) by excessive use of nets. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. (at cited word) To use nets to excess in fishing. 1992 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 3 May 12 c Once over-netted by commercial operations in Ontario and Minnesota, Rainy [Lake] is recovering since the gill nets have declined. 2002 N.W. Florida Daily News (Electronic ed.) 21 Feb. Redfish and drum stocks were not overfished. They were overnetted! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1837 |
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