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单词 pound net
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pound net


noun

a trap for catching fish, consisting of a system of nets staked upright in the water and a rectangular enclosure or pound from which escape is impossible.

Origin of pound net

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Words nearby pound net

pound cost averaging, pounder, pound-foot, pound-force, pound key, pound net, pound of flesh, pound out, pound puppy, pound Scots, pound sign
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Example sentences from the Web for pound net

  • The waters abound in fish, but we have a pound-net which supplies us with all we can eat.

    Comrades|Thomas Dixon
  • At one pound-net fishery in Provincetown he saw enough salmon to fill two sugar barrels.

    New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century|Various

British Dictionary definitions for pound net

pound net

noun

a fishing trap having an arrangement of standing nets directing the fish into an enclosed net
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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