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FISHING NET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fishing net mean? 

FISHING NET (noun)
  The noun FISHING NET has 1 sense:

1. a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled inplay

  Familiarity information: FISHING NET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FISHING NET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fishing net; fishnet

Hypernyms ("fishing net" is a kind of...):

net (a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fishing net"):

drift net (a large fishnet supported by floats; it drifts with the current)

gill net (a flat fishnet suspended vertically in the water to entangle fish by their gills)

landing net (a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water)

seine (a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom)

trammel; trammel net (a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh)

dragnet; trawl; trawl net (a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths)


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