harry-netn.
Obsolete or dialect.
= harry-water net at harry-water adj. and n. 1.
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1805 Leslie of Powis 79 (Jam.) He does not know what a harry-net is.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Harry-net, a net with such small meshes, and so formed, as to take even the young and small fish.
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