seinen.¹

Brit.

/seɪn/, U.S.

/sɛn/,

/seɪn/

Forms: α. Old English segne, Middle English–1700s seyne, Middle English–1600s sayne, Middle English seyn, 1600s–1700s sayn, sain(e, sein, 1600s– seine. β. 1600s seene, 1600s– sean.

Etymology: Old English sęgne weak feminine = Old Saxon, Old High German segîna < West Germanic *sagīna, < Latin sagēna (whence French seine), < Greek σαγήνη.

a. A fishing net designed to hang vertically in the water, the ends being drawn together to enclose the fish. (See quot. 1874 at β. .) Also with defining word denoting the kind of seine, as cod seine, herring seine, pilchard seine, shad seine, drift-seine, drag-seine, tuck-seine, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net

seinec950

seine-net1603

sweep-net1605

shackle-head1762

sweeping-net1809

hang-net1812

stop-seine1825

purse seine1838

ring net1851

scringe1851

trawl-net1855

sweep-seine1856

ground-seine1874

purse seine net1879

shore seine1884

trek-net1913

α.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xxi. 11 Næs ðiu segni tosliten [L. non est scissum rete].

OE Exodus 585 Ongunnon sælafe segnum dælan on yðlafe, ealde madmas, reaf and randas.

c1300 K. Horn (Laud) 700 Þe fis þat brac þi seyne.

a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4270 Set we na saynes in þe see, ne sese we na fischis.

1483 Cath. Angl. 328/1 A Seyn, sagena.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 30 The Sayne is a net, of about fortie fathome in length, with which they encompasse a part of the Sea, and drawe the same on land by two ropes, fastned at his ends, together with such fish, as lighteth within his precinct.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 35 He hath of his own a Saine to catch fish withall.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 55 They have almost every where the best conveniences for hauling the seyne.

1797 R. Polwhele Hist. Devonshire I. 120 Herrings..are taken in seines—three tons have been caught at a hawl.

1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 28 A manatee had been caught in a drift-seine near Ajedé.

β. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Nnn3^v/1 Seane fish..seemeth to be that fish which is taken with a very great and long net called a seane.a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 201 These two holy Epistles are as some seene [printed scene], or large drag-net.1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 11 We had very good Fishing with a Sean.1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 156 Seans may be divided into three classes, namely, the sean proper..the ‘tuck-sean’, and the ‘ground or foot-sean’. All these nets have the same general character... The back or upper edge of the net is buoyed up by corks..; and the foot is weighted with lead to keep it down, so that the net may hang perpendicularly in the water.1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve II. 75 Barnabas had a share in a pilchard sean.

b. to blow up the seine: of a fish, ‘to press against the lead-line in the endeavour to escape’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). to shoot a seine (or seine-net): to throw it out into position.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with net > with seine-net > shoot seine-net

to shoot a seine (or seine-net)1698

1698 Act 10 Will. III c. 14 §12 No Person..shall..shoot his..Sayn or Sayns within or upon the Sayn or Sayns of any other Person.

1893 Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 71 §14 Any person who shall shoot or work any seine or draft net for salmon in a river across the whole width.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

seine fishery n.

ΚΠ

1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 188 St. Ives is especially famous for the extent of its sean~fishery.

seine fishing n.

ΚΠ

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 125/2 The difference between drift and seine fishing.

1883 L. Z. Joncas Fisheries Canada 23 Seine-fishing for herrings is chiefly carried on by fishermen of Nova Scotia.

seine-hauling n.

ΚΠ

1909 F. Moresby Two Admirals 111 Oh, the shooting, the seine-hauling, the picnics of those enchanted coasts [of Chili].

seine line n.

ΚΠ

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 65 Sean-lines, for fixing the sean-nets, have 18 threads, 6 in a strand.

1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 97 Seine lines.

seine-netter n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > seine-netter

seine-boat1602

purse seiner1882

seiner1906

seine-netter1947

1947 A. C. Hardy Seafood Ships vii. 99 The seine netter..is invariably under 100 ft. long and of wooden construction.

1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. (S. Afr. Fishing Review) 1/2 The days when trawlers and seine-netters could make maximum hauls virtually on their doorsteps are over.

seine-netting n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > seine- or purse-netting

seining1836

seine-shooting1864

purse seining1878

blowsing1880

purse netting1898

seine-netting1905

1905 J. Johnstone Brit. Fisheries p. xxviii This latter method of seine-netting brings us to the consideration of the methods of the inshore or longshore man.

1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 14 May 7/7 A list of..stretches of water to be closed to trawling and seine netting.

seine trawl n.

seine trawler n.

ΚΠ

1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 323 The drift-men may therefore frequently have a chance of success when sean-trawlers have none.

seine trawling n.

ΚΠ

1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 323 An Act was passed to put an end to sean-trawling for herrings on the coast of Scotland.

seine twine n.

ΚΠ

1770 Boston Gaz. 13 Mar. 4/2 (advt.) The right sort of three-threaded Sein Twine.

1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. 124 Seine twine.

C2.

seine-boat n. a boat adapted for carrying and throwing out a seine.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > seine-netter

seine-boat1602

purse seiner1882

seiner1906

seine-netter1947

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27^v They haue..Sayn-boats for taking of Pilcherd.

1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 159 The other rope and the whole of the net are put into the stern of the sean-boat.

† seine-fish n. Obsolete a fish caught in a seine, spec. in Jamaica, the Saury Elops.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > [noun] > caught in specific types of net

seine-fish1603

purser1973

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Elopidae (ten-pounder)

ten-pounder1699

sea-galliwaspa1705

seine-fish1725

saury1771

mackerel pike1890

ladyfish1971

1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 23 §1 Herringes, Pilchardes and Seane Fishe.

1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 284 Saurus maximus... The Sein-Fish, or Sea-Gally-Wasp.

seine-gang n. ‘a body of men engaged in seining, together with their boats and other gear’ ( Cent. Dict.).

seine-man n. one of a seine-gang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using seine-net

seiner1602

blowser1816

shooter1855

seine-tender1856

seine-man1879

purse seiner1882

1879 Holdsworth in Encycl. Brit. IX. 254/2 The seanmen receive certain wages in money and a share of the fish.

seine-needle n. a needle with which the meshes of a seine are netted.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > needle for nets

seine-needle1879

1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 131 Seine-needle.

seine-net n. = sense a; also as v. intransitive, to fish with a seine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net

seinec950

seine-net1603

sweep-net1605

shackle-head1762

sweeping-net1809

hang-net1812

stop-seine1825

purse seine1838

ring net1851

scringe1851

trawl-net1855

sweep-seine1856

ground-seine1874

purse seine net1879

shore seine1884

trek-net1913

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 117 Taken..in a sayne nette, drawne after euerye tide.

1898 S. Evans Holy Graal 41 A fetch that will bring them all safe home with a seine-net full of fish.

seine-roller n. (see quot. 1887).

ΚΠ

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods I. 249 A seine-roller..is a wooden roller..which revolves on pivots in its ends... The use of this roller is to lessen the friction between the rail of the vessel and the seine, as the latter is being hauled on deck.

seine-shooting n. the casting of the nets in seine-fishing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > seine- or purse-netting

seining1836

seine-shooting1864

purse seining1878

blowsing1880

purse netting1898

seine-netting1905

1864 B. Lloyd Ladies Polcarrow 29 The first successful seine-shooting for several long needy years.

seine-tender n. (see quot. 1856¹).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using seine-net

seiner1602

blowser1816

shooter1855

seine-tender1856

seine-man1879

purse seiner1882

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 351 There are two large seine-boats, in each of which there is one captain, two seine-tenders, and eight or ten oarsmen.

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 351 The seine-tenders throwing off, until the seine is all cast between them.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

seinev.

Brit.

/seɪn/, U.S.

/sɛn/,

/seɪn/

Forms: Also sean.

Etymology: < seine n.¹

1. intransitive. To fish or catch fish with a seine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with net > with seine-net

seine1836

trawl1864

1836 [see seining n. at Derivatives].

1863 Rep. Sea Fisheries Comm. (1865) II. 432/1 Were you in the habit of seining for herrings every season?

2. transitive. To catch with a seine; (also) to use a seine in.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch fish with net

netOE

dredge1508

drag1698

tuck1785

gillnet1837

amphibolize1854

gill1868

trawl1883

seine1887

poke1899

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods I. 260 The fact of mackerel being seined at night could not long be kept a secret.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 1/2 To send a fleet..to ‘seine’ the bay for herring for bait.

Derivatives

seined adj.

ΚΠ

1876 G. B. Goode Catal. Fishes Bermudas 10 Row-boats filled with small seined fish may be found at the quay.

ˈseining n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > seine- or purse-netting

seining1836

seine-shooting1864

purse seining1878

blowsing1880

purse netting1898

seine-netting1905

1836 1st Rep. Irish Fisheries 152 Seaning seldom commences before June or July.

1900 Field 18 Aug. 297/3 I was anxious to follow up my seining operations.

ˈseining adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [adjective] > with net

trawled1864

seining1874

1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 189 The seaning ground is on the western side of the bay.

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods I. 267 A seining schooner.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seine
释义	seinen.¹ Brit. /seɪn/, U.S. /sɛn/, /seɪn/ Forms: α. Old English segne, Middle English–1700s seyne, Middle English–1600s sayne, Middle English seyn, 1600s–1700s sayn, sain(e, sein, 1600s– seine. β. 1600s seene, 1600s– sean. Etymology: Old English sęgne weak feminine = Old Saxon, Old High German segîna < West Germanic sagīna, < Latin sagēna* (whence French seine), < Greek σαγήνη. a. A fishing net designed to hang vertically in the water, the ends being drawn together to enclose the fish. (See quot. 1874 at β. .) Also with defining word denoting the kind of seine, as cod seine, herring seine, pilchard seine, shad seine, drift-seine, drag-seine, tuck-seine, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net seinec950 seine-net1603 sweep-net1605 shackle-head1762 sweeping-net1809 hang-net1812 stop-seine1825 purse seine1838 ring net1851 scringe1851 trawl-net1855 sweep-seine1856 ground-seine1874 purse seine net1879 shore seine1884 trek-net1913 α. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xxi. 11 Næs ðiu segni tosliten [L. non est scissum rete]. OE Exodus 585 Ongunnon sælafe segnum dælan on yðlafe, ealde madmas, reaf and randas. c1300 K. Horn (Laud) 700 Þe fis þat brac þi seyne. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4270 Set we na saynes in þe see, ne sese we na fischis. 1483 Cath. Angl. 328/1 A Seyn, sagena. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 30 The Sayne is a net, of about fortie fathome in length, with which they encompasse a part of the Sea, and drawe the same on land by two ropes, fastned at his ends, together with such fish, as lighteth within his precinct. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 35 He hath of his own a Saine to catch fish withall. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 55 They have almost every where the best conveniences for hauling the seyne. 1797 R. Polwhele Hist. Devonshire I. 120 Herrings..are taken in seines—three tons have been caught at a hawl. 1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 28 A manatee had been caught in a drift-seine near Ajedé. β. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Nnn3^v/1 Seane fish..seemeth to be that fish which is taken with a very great and long net called a seane.a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 201 These two holy Epistles are as some seene [printed scene], or large drag-net.1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 11 We had very good Fishing with a Sean.1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 156 Seans may be divided into three classes, namely, the sean proper..the ‘tuck-sean’, and the ‘ground or foot-sean’. All these nets have the same general character... The back or upper edge of the net is buoyed up by corks..; and the foot is weighted with lead to keep it down, so that the net may hang perpendicularly in the water.1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve II. 75 Barnabas had a share in a pilchard sean. b. to blow up the seine: of a fish, ‘to press against the lead-line in the endeavour to escape’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). to shoot a seine (or seine-net): to throw it out into position. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with net > with seine-net > shoot seine-net to shoot a seine (or seine-net)1698 1698 Act 10 Will. III c. 14 §12 No Person..shall..shoot his..Sayn or Sayns within or upon the Sayn or Sayns of any other Person. 1893 Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 71 §14 Any person who shall shoot or work any seine or draft net for salmon in a river across the whole width. Compounds C1. General attributive. seine fishery n. ΚΠ 1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 188 St. Ives is especially famous for the extent of its sean~fishery. seine fishing n. ΚΠ 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 125/2 The difference between drift and seine fishing. 1883 L. Z. Joncas Fisheries Canada 23 Seine-fishing for herrings is chiefly carried on by fishermen of Nova Scotia. seine-hauling n. ΚΠ 1909 F. Moresby Two Admirals 111 Oh, the shooting, the seine-hauling, the picnics of those enchanted coasts [of Chili]. seine line n. ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 65 Sean-lines, for fixing the sean-nets, have 18 threads, 6 in a strand. 1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 97 Seine lines. seine-netter n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > seine-netter seine-boat1602 purse seiner1882 seiner1906 seine-netter1947 1947 A. C. Hardy Seafood Ships vii. 99 The seine netter..is invariably under 100 ft. long and of wooden construction. 1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. (S. Afr. Fishing Review) 1/2 The days when trawlers and seine-netters could make maximum hauls virtually on their doorsteps are over. seine-netting n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > seine- or purse-netting seining1836 seine-shooting1864 purse seining1878 blowsing1880 purse netting1898 seine-netting1905 1905 J. Johnstone Brit. Fisheries p. xxviii This latter method of seine-netting brings us to the consideration of the methods of the inshore or longshore man. 1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 14 May 7/7 A list of..stretches of water to be closed to trawling and seine netting. seine trawl n. seine trawler n. ΚΠ 1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 323 The drift-men may therefore frequently have a chance of success when sean-trawlers have none. seine trawling n. ΚΠ 1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 323 An Act was passed to put an end to sean-trawling for herrings on the coast of Scotland. seine twine n. ΚΠ 1770 Boston Gaz. 13 Mar. 4/2 (advt.) The right sort of three-threaded Sein Twine. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. 124 Seine twine. C2. seine-boat n. a boat adapted for carrying and throwing out a seine. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > seine-netter seine-boat1602 purse seiner1882 seiner1906 seine-netter1947 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27^v They haue..Sayn-boats for taking of Pilcherd. 1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 159 The other rope and the whole of the net are put into the stern of the sean-boat. † seine-fish n. Obsolete a fish caught in a seine, spec. in Jamaica, the Saury Elops. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > caught in specific types of net seine-fish1603 purser1973 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Elopidae (ten-pounder) ten-pounder1699 sea-galliwaspa1705 seine-fish1725 saury1771 mackerel pike1890 ladyfish1971 1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 23 §1 Herringes, Pilchardes and Seane Fishe. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 284 Saurus maximus... The Sein-Fish, or Sea-Gally-Wasp. seine-gang n. ‘a body of men engaged in seining, together with their boats and other gear’ ( Cent. Dict.). seine-man n. one of a seine-gang. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using seine-net seiner1602 blowser1816 shooter1855 seine-tender1856 seine-man1879 purse seiner1882 1879 Holdsworth in Encycl. Brit. IX. 254/2 The seanmen receive certain wages in money and a share of the fish. seine-needle n. a needle with which the meshes of a seine are netted. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > needle for nets seine-needle1879 1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 131 Seine-needle. seine-net n. = sense a; also as v. intransitive, to fish with a seine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net seinec950 seine-net1603 sweep-net1605 shackle-head1762 sweeping-net1809 hang-net1812 stop-seine1825 purse seine1838 ring net1851 scringe1851 trawl-net1855 sweep-seine1856 ground-seine1874 purse seine net1879 shore seine1884 trek-net1913 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 117 Taken..in a sayne nette, drawne after euerye tide. 1898 S. Evans Holy Graal 41 A fetch that will bring them all safe home with a seine-net full of fish. seine-roller n. (see quot. 1887). ΚΠ 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods I. 249 A seine-roller..is a wooden roller..which revolves on pivots in its ends... The use of this roller is to lessen the friction between the rail of the vessel and the seine, as the latter is being hauled on deck. seine-shooting n. the casting of the nets in seine-fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > seine- or purse-netting seining1836 seine-shooting1864 purse seining1878 blowsing1880 purse netting1898 seine-netting1905 1864 B. Lloyd Ladies Polcarrow 29 The first successful seine-shooting for several long needy years. seine-tender n. (see quot. 1856¹). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using seine-net seiner1602 blowser1816 shooter1855 seine-tender1856 seine-man1879 purse seiner1882 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 351 There are two large seine-boats, in each of which there is one captain, two seine-tenders, and eight or ten oarsmen. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 351 The seine-tenders throwing off, until the seine is all cast between them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † seinen.² Etymology: Old English segn , < Latin signum sign n. Obsolete. rare. A banner. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > banner seineOE bannerc1305 banner-cloth1552 labarum1563 oriflamme1602 OE Beowulf 2958 Þa wæs æht boden..segn Higelace[s] freoðowong þone forð ofereodon. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 9282 Nam he his seine and his sceald briþte. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † seineadj. Etymology: Middle English seine (disyllable), perhaps < Old French sené wise, assimilated to the rhyme-word meyne meinie n. Obsolete. rare. ? Grave, sober. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [adjective] seinec1330 sober1362 unfeastlyc1386 murec1390 unlaughter-milda1400 sadc1400 solemnyc1420 solemned1423 serious1440 solemnc1449 solenc1460 solemnel?1473 moy1487 demure1523 grave1549 staid1557 sage1564 sullen1583 weighty1602 solid1632 censoriousa1637 (as) grave (also solemn, etc.) as a judge1650 untriumphant1659 setc1660 agelastic1666 austere1667 humourless1671 unlaughing1737 smileless1740 untriflinga1743 untittering1749 steady1759 dun1797 antithalian1818 dreich1819 laughterless1825 unsmiling1826 laughless1827 unfestive1844 sober-sided1847 gleeless1850 unfarcical1850 mome1855 deedy1895 button-down1959 buttoned-down1960 straight-faced1975 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11447 Faire þey come..Wyþ softe pas & fulle seine [Wace, Petit pas, ordeneement] Gret þei Arthur & his meyne. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). seinev. Brit. /seɪn/, U.S. /sɛn/, /seɪn/ Forms: Also sean. Etymology: < seine n.¹ 1. intransitive. To fish or catch fish with a seine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with net > with seine-net seine1836 trawl1864 1836 [see seining n. at Derivatives]. 1863 Rep. Sea Fisheries Comm. (1865) II. 432/1 Were you in the habit of seining for herrings every season? 2. transitive. To catch with a seine; (also) to use a seine in. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch fish with net netOE dredge1508 drag1698 tuck1785 gillnet1837 amphibolize1854 gill1868 trawl1883 seine1887 poke1899 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods I. 260 The fact of mackerel being seined at night could not long be kept a secret. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 1/2 To send a fleet..to ‘seine’ the bay for herring for bait. Derivatives seined adj. ΚΠ 1876 G. B. Goode Catal. Fishes Bermudas 10 Row-boats filled with small seined fish may be found at the quay. ˈseining n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > seine- or purse-netting seining1836 seine-shooting1864 purse seining1878 blowsing1880 purse netting1898 seine-netting1905 1836 1st Rep. Irish Fisheries 152 Seaning seldom commences before June or July. 1900 Field 18 Aug. 297/3 I was anxious to follow up my seining operations. ˈseining adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [adjective] > with net trawled1864 seining1874 1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 189 The seaning ground is on the western side of the bay. 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods I. 267 A seining schooner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c950n.²OEadj.c1330v.1836
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seinev.

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