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NETTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does netted mean?
• NETTED (adjective)
The adjective NETTED has 1 sense:
1. having open interstices or resembling a web
Familiarity information: NETTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having open interstices or resembling a web
Synonyms:
lacy; netlike; netted; webbed; webby; weblike
Similar:
reticular; reticulate (resembling or forming a network)
Context examples
We hoped to snare a falcon, said he presently, but we netted a carrion-crow.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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