释义 |
noun seɪnseɪn A fishing net which hangs vertically in the water with floats at the top and weights at the bottom edge, the ends being drawn together to encircle the fish. Example sentencesExamples - In the net lofts along the ship canal they tar their seine twine with paraffin to protect against salt water.
- A second seine netter has begun fishing from Kilkeel.
- They consider large gill nets and lampara seines to be ‘predatory’ techniques because fish have little chance to escape and because they take both juveniles and adults.
- Success depended on dragging the seine close to the bottom and banks and closing it before fish escaped.
- In the Kodiak harbor, the salmon seine fleet was loading supplies and heading out for an opening the next day, and schools of inch-long smolt darkened the water.
- All the instructions were given in Irish in those days and when the spyer saw the fish he'd tell the captain and the seine net would be paid out.
- Cajun fishermen invented or modified numerous devices: nets and seines, crab traps, shrimp boxes, bait boxes, trotlines, and frog grabs.
- The estimates of migrating salmon invited exaggeration and fantastic stories, but the exceptional harvests by commercial fishers using seines, traps, and fish wheels seemed to justify the tales.
- The two-day festival focused on the seine boat, which is the traditional fishing craft of the Iveragh Peninsula.
- The fishermen use a seine net in this fishery to encircle the tuna like a fence.
- I had always associated this fishery with a bay in Canada, in British Columbia, that is closed off with a curtain of seine netting after the spawny herring have entered it.
- The WDCS reports that Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are usually captured using speedboats and a seine net.
- Spears were the first fishing tools used, until the invention of nets, tubs and salmon seines.
- A community social event which takes place every morning is the putting out of the large beach seine net and pulling it back in to catch any fish in the bay.
- Soon fish moved only after dark, forcing fishermen to set their seines at night.
- Throughout the year, coastal fisheries staff wade into the shallow water along bay shorelines and drag fine-webbed seines.
verb seɪnseɪn [with object]1Fish (an area) with a seine. the fishermen then seine the weir - 1.1 Catch (fish) with a seine.
they seine whitefish and salmon Example sentencesExamples - James continued to seine fish with his new boat.
- Brother Mickey Moore MFV ‘Sharlisa’ is continuing to seine fish.
Derivatives noun DFO has given a commercial licence to herring seiners off Chebucto Head. Example sentencesExamples - There were seaplanes and salmon seiners moored to the piers.
- Today, the salmon fleet totals 3,381 vessels: 491 seiners, 864 trollers and 2,026 gillnetters.
- Cleaning the fish, and the mud-encrusted seiners, required more laughter and beer than skill and water.
- We're having a problem with large herring seiners.
Origin Old English segne, of West Germanic origin, via Latin from Greek sagēnē; reinforced in Middle English by Old French saine. proper nounseɪnsɛn A river of northern France. Rising north of Dijon, it flows north-westwards for 761 km (473 miles), through the cities of Troyes and Paris to the English Channel near Le Havre.
Rhymes abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne nounseɪnsān A fishing net which hangs vertically in the water with floats at the top and weights at the bottom edge, the ends being drawn together to encircle the fish. Example sentencesExamples - In the net lofts along the ship canal they tar their seine twine with paraffin to protect against salt water.
- Throughout the year, coastal fisheries staff wade into the shallow water along bay shorelines and drag fine-webbed seines.
- I had always associated this fishery with a bay in Canada, in British Columbia, that is closed off with a curtain of seine netting after the spawny herring have entered it.
- The two-day festival focused on the seine boat, which is the traditional fishing craft of the Iveragh Peninsula.
- The fishermen use a seine net in this fishery to encircle the tuna like a fence.
- Spears were the first fishing tools used, until the invention of nets, tubs and salmon seines.
- In the Kodiak harbor, the salmon seine fleet was loading supplies and heading out for an opening the next day, and schools of inch-long smolt darkened the water.
- They consider large gill nets and lampara seines to be ‘predatory’ techniques because fish have little chance to escape and because they take both juveniles and adults.
- Success depended on dragging the seine close to the bottom and banks and closing it before fish escaped.
- A community social event which takes place every morning is the putting out of the large beach seine net and pulling it back in to catch any fish in the bay.
- A second seine netter has begun fishing from Kilkeel.
- Cajun fishermen invented or modified numerous devices: nets and seines, crab traps, shrimp boxes, bait boxes, trotlines, and frog grabs.
- Soon fish moved only after dark, forcing fishermen to set their seines at night.
- The estimates of migrating salmon invited exaggeration and fantastic stories, but the exceptional harvests by commercial fishers using seines, traps, and fish wheels seemed to justify the tales.
- All the instructions were given in Irish in those days and when the spyer saw the fish he'd tell the captain and the seine net would be paid out.
- The WDCS reports that Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are usually captured using speedboats and a seine net.
verbseɪnsān [with object]1Fish (an area) with a seine. the fishermen then seine the weir - 1.1 Catch (fish) with a seine.
they seine whitefish and salmon Example sentencesExamples - James continued to seine fish with his new boat.
- Brother Mickey Moore MFV ‘Sharlisa’ is continuing to seine fish.
Origin Old English segne, of West Germanic origin, via Latin from Greek sagēnē; reinforced in Middle English by Old French saine. proper noun A river in northern France. Rising north of Dijon, it flows northwest for 473 miles (761 km) through the cities of Troyes and Paris to the English Channel near Le Havre. |