shove-netn.
/ˈʃʌvnɛt/ A fishing-net with a broad mouth expanded by means of a frame, worked by pushing along the bed of a river, etc., or through shallow sea-water.
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1418 Court Roll Great Waltham Manor Piscavit sine licencia cum diversis instrumentis videlicet spertes, lammes, et schofnetts et pisces cepit.
1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 577 Shotnet, Shofnet, et Kydels, sount defenduz.
1464 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 40, No. 7) Debet sibi xviii d. pro rethe vocato a schofnet.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng ix. f. 10v The lordes tenantes haue lybertie by custome to fysshe with shouenettes.
1539 in Archaeologia 43 212 iiij potyngers; and j shuffnet.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sauve, a shoue-net to fish withall.
1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. 327 They throw in a Net on a Hoop at the End of a Pole, the Pole going cross the Hoop, which, in some Places, they call a Shove Net.
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 27 The use of the shove-net to entrap the prawns and shrimps.
1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 218 Shrimps are fished for with the common hand or ‘shove’-net.
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