seine1
/seɪn
/noun
(also seine net) A fishing net which hangs vertically in the water with floats at the top and weights at the bottom edge, the ends being drawn together to encircle the fish: [as modifier]: a seine boat...
- The fishermen use a seine net in this fishery to encircle the tuna like a fence.
- All the instructions were given in Irish in those days and when the spyer saw the fish he'd tell the captain and the seine net would be paid out.
- The WDCS reports that Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are usually captured using speedboats and a seine net.
verb [with object]
1Fish (an area) with a seine: the fishermen then seine the weir
1.1Catch (fish) with a seine: they seine whitefish and salmon...
- Brother Mickey Moore MFV ‘Sharlisa’ is continuing to seine fish.
- James continued to seine fish with his new boat.
Derivatives
seiner
- Today, the salmon fleet totals 3,381 vessels: 491 seiners, 864 trollers and 2,026 gillnetters.
- We're having a problem with large herring seiners.
- Cleaning the fish, and the mud-encrusted seiners, required more laughter and beer than skill and water.
Origin
Old English segne, of West Germanic origin, via Latin from Greek sagēnē; reinforced in Middle English by Old French saine.
Seine2
/seɪn/ /sɛn/A river of northern France. Rising north of Dijon, it flows north-westwards for 761 km (473 miles), through the cities of Troyes and Paris to the English Channel near Le Havre.