1759 H. Walpole 13 Dec. (1846) IV. 7 Fourteen thousand soldiers and nine generals taken, as it were, in a partridge-net!
1843 T. Carlyle iii. ix. 246 The partridge-nets of an Unworking Dilettantism.
1870 May 351/1 The next morning Philip Martin..came over to borrow our partridge-net.
1931 46 245 Another proclamation..ordered the master of the hawks..to destroy as well all partridge nets and snares.