单词 | netsman |
释义 | netsmann. A person who uses a net in catching fish or (occasionally) game. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net netter1591 net-fisher1677 net-man1847 netsman1867 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling i. 31 The netsman should never dash at his fish. 1887 D. C. Murray & H. Herman One Traveller Returns iv. 52 The netsmen bore long nets of stout bark rope and thong. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 June 14/3 Dog-fish, these terrors to netsmen and long-liners. 1937 H. Pope St. Augustine of Hippo vi. 245 One of the netsmen has just been bitten by a crab. 1962 Punch 21 Feb. 328/2 Who but a lunatic or a salmon netsman would be astir? 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Mar. 258/5 The salmon netsmen of the east coast of Scotland were the first to complain of the damage done by seals. 1988 B. Smithson Rabbiting (BNC) 127 All the rabbits lived in the wood. A daylight catch from a long-net. There are no buttons on the netsman's smock. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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