单词 | field net |
释义 | field netn. 1. A large, fixed net used to trap animals, esp. rabbits or hares.figurative in quot. 1814. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > net for rabbits or hares purse net1388 hay1389 hay-netc1440 gate-net1605 flan1801 field net1814 purse1893 1814 Bell's Weekly Messenger 30 Jan. 34/1 Our troops in Canada made prisoners of one or two whole American armies—catching them, as bird-catchers do birds, all in one field net. 1843 Lloyd's Weekly London Newspaper 16 Apr. 6/5 ‘As for your hares,’ he said, pointing to his assortment of field-nets, gate-nets, and gap nets, ‘them's the thing for the Holkham hares.’ 2006 S. Caple Rural Pest Control 36 I like to place a person at each hedge net to intercept any rabbits that run up or down the hedge and a person each side to watch the field nets. 2. A hand-held net with a fine mesh and a long handle, used to catch insects, small fish, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > nets for insects sweep-net1872 field net1893 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > small net harry-water1579 truble1600 harry-net1805 splash1855 splash-net1855 Agassiz trawl1882 field net1893 1893 New Eng. Mag. Sept. 69/2 Implements of war and of the chase,..‘killing bottles’ loaded with cyanide of potassium, long-handled field nets. 1949 Suomen hyö̈nteistieteellinen aikakauskirja (Annales entomologici Fennici) 15 90 The third case of phoresy observed in Finland is of a special kind... In this case it might be possible..that attachment to the fly only happened in the net, since the specimen was presumably collected with a field net. 1997 R. D. Bartlett & P. P. Bartlett Lizard Care from A to Z 40/2 Grasshoppers can be field collected in the United States by the deft wielding of a field net. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1814 |
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