bow-netn.
/ˈbəʊnɛt/ 1. A kind of trap used for lobsters, crayfish, etc., consisting now of a cylinder of wicker-work closed at one end and having a narrow, funnel-shaped entrance at the other; also called, a bow-weel.
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creel1457
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fish-pota1555
pota1555
loup1581
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fish-coop1803
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crib1873
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 167 Nassa bogenet, uel leap.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 181 Nassa, æwul, uel boganet.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bowe nette or weele, nassa.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 47 They take them in bow-nets..whereinto they enter for the food, but being entrapped cannot go forth againe.
1631 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata xxxviii. §427 A Fisher-man fisheth..in a brooke, flood, or riuer..with a wheele or bownet.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. i. i. 5 They cast abundance of them [sc. Shell-fish] into the Sea, in Weels or Bonnets [L. nassas] for that purpose.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 145 Bow-nets set in the runs..for tench and eels.
2. A kind of net attached to a bow or arch of wood or metal, used by fowlers.
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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
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. iv. i. §4. 293 [Hawks] must be captured either by the bow-net or the hand-net.
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