| 单词 | road net |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad net road net n. now historical a net stretched across a woodland path or way to ensnare game birds, hares, etc.; a net for catching game in a cock-road. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > net plover net1404 tunnelc1440 setter1526 trammel1530 bird net1533 day net1576 road net1581 sparrow-net1621 shaw-net1648 trammel-net1648 spreadnet1661 pocket-hay1704 bramble-net1706 clap-net1708 tunnel-net1721 funnel-net1774 bow-net1875 flight net1889 house trap1903 pouting-net1905 1581 Act 23 Eliz. c. 10 §6 Others, which..take any Partridges or Feasaunts by night vnder any Tramel, Lowbell, Roadenete or other Engyn. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Rodnet, a net to catch blackbirds, or woodcockes in. [Also in later dictionaries.] 1856 Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 3) III. 6 These tracks or open glades in woods, are sometimes called cockshoots and cock-roads, and it is in these places that nets, called road-nets, were formerly suspended for their capture. 1968 Classical Q. New Ser. 18 381 The cord for the purse-net [made] of nine fibres, for the road-net of twelve fibres, and for the long-net of sixteen fibres. 2005 A. R. Littlewood in N. G. Wilson Encycl. Anc. Greece (2006) 372/2 Larger road nets were stretched across paths. < as lemmas |
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