purse nettingn.
/ˈpəːs ˌnɛtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpərs ˌnɛdɪŋ/ 1. The practice of making purses out of network. Now historical and rare.
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1833 A. Manning Village Belles II. x. 134 (heading) Purse netting.
1846 W. W. Turner tr. F. von Raumer America & Amer. People xxxv. 357 Among other employments they are taught basket and mat weaving, brush-making, artificial flower-making, purse-netting, &c.
1863 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 755 No more purse-netting for me either; work dropped from my hands, and dream-making began.
1954 A. Loesser Men, Women & Pianos iii. xviii. 268 The eighteenth century saw the rise and fall of many others [sc. activities]:..crapework, chenille work, ribbon work, waferwork, and purse netting.
2. The practice of fishing with a purse net or nets.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > seine- or purse-netting
seining1836
seine-shooting1864
purse seining1878
blowsing1880
purse netting1898
seine-netting1905
1898 E. Ingersoll Bk. of Ocean xi. 246 The old-fashioned hand-line fishing, such as still holds a place in the mackerel fisheries—although even there it has given way in most vessels to purse-netting.
1931 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Mar. 12/4 (heading) Mr. Denmead shows evils of purse netting.
2003 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 19 July 2/2 Maryland does not allow ‘purse netting’, which is the method used by the Omega fleet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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