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单词 purse net
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purse netn.

Brit. /ˈpəːs nɛt/, U.S. /ˈpərs ˌnɛt/
Forms: see purse n. and net n.1; also late Middle English pursuetes (plural, transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: purse n., net n.1
Etymology: < purse n. + net n.1
1.
a. A bag-shaped net, the mouth of which may be drawn together with cords, used chiefly in fishing and for catching rabbits or other burrowing animals.
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1388 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 508 (MED) [No person shall fish in the Thames with any net called a] pursnet [on pain of forfeiture of such net].
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 37 Men taken hem with houndes, with greihoundes, with haies and with pursnettis.
1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man f. 29v Men haue preparid them selfes to go on huntyng, and to that intent haue brought forthe..theyr hayes and pursenettes.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxiv. 179 Set pursenettes vpon al the holes, or as many of them as you can finde.
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting B j b Stopping all the holes, saving two or three, which must be set with Foxe pursenets, to take a yong Cubbe.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xl. 182 I twist lines and weave purse-nets, wherein to catch coneys.
1704 Dict. Rusticum (at cited word) Purse-net, these Nets are useful to take both Hares and Rabbets at certain times.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Rabbit The ferret is sent into a hole to force them out, and the purse-net, being spread over the hole, takes them, as they come out.
1801 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports I. 352 After the holes are..covered with Purse-Nets called Flans, the Ferret should be put in.
1861 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 354 They..fish with drag-nets, hand-nets, hoop-nets, purse-nets, and hooks.
1931 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Feb. 5/6 Opponents of purse nets and buck net fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.
1994 Countryman's Weekly 3 June 5/1 The very act of placing a purse net over a hole would seem so easy an operation that normally I wouldn't insult anyone's intelligence by trying to explain how to do it.
2005 Alberni Valley (Brit. Columbia) Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. 1 Two Steveston-based vessels..spent Monday and Tuesday casting their purse-nets between Dunsmuir point and Polly point.
b. figurative. Obsolete.
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1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. i. 158 Wenches lets bee wise, and make Rookes of them that I warrant are now setting pursenets to conycatch us.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. ii. 86 in Wks. II I ha' you in a purse-net, Good Master Picklocke, wi' your worming braine, And wrigling ingine-head of maintenance.
1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. 109 If he has not got us into such a Cramp and Purse-nett that we shall never escape without loss of Bag and Baggage.
2. cant. An item for which a person pays far more than its actual value. Obsolete.
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Pursenets, goods taken upon Trust by young Unthrifts at treble the Value; also a little Purse. [Also in later dictionaries.]

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
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1911 Oysterman & Fisherman Sept. 25/2 Conant Brothers Company, Incorporated make a specialty of the construction of Purse boats, used so widely in purse net fishing along the coast.
1931 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Jan. 6/2 Fish that sold for approximately $1,000 was garnered..by ten purse-net fishing boats.
1977 Young's Sporting Appliances (S. Young & Sons Ltd.) 4 Purse Net Line..Purse Net Rings.
2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. 24/5 Congress ordered NOAA and the fisheries center to prepare a study to determine if the purse net fishing was harmful.
C2.
purse-net fish n. [compare net-fish n., basket-fish n. at basket n. Compounds 2] Obsolete rare a basket star, which is an ophiuroid of the order Phrynophiurida, characterized by complex branching arms.
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1670 J. Winthrop Let. 26 Oct. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 222 Untill a fitter English name be knowne, why may not it be called..a basket fish, or a nett fish, or pursnet fish &c?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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