casting-net

Under this impression, Kennedy and I started at seven that morning, towards Perch-hole, where Lary Miller was to meet us with a punt and casting-net, and we were to fish our way down the river, towards Datchet.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

The verbal casting-net is thrown in vain over these evanescent, inferential relations.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

Every one used a fine casting-net when fishing alone along the shores.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

The French, from their vantage point at Montreal, threw out a frail casting-net of fur stations and missions, which caught and held all the Lakes for a time.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

With this, weighted by bullets, he contrived a casting-net and caught a lot of small fish in the lagoon.

The Wings of the Morning Louis Tracy 1895

On the Mahakam and the Katingan this is an occasion for the Dayaks to catch much fish with casting-net, spears, or hooks.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

A few years before my visit the brother of the kapala was eaten by a crocodile as he and two other Katingans were fishing with a casting-net.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

In the neighbourhood of towns and large villages the fishing is often spoilt by the casting-net.

Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885

When the casting-net was left at home (it was of little use when the water was clear) chub-fishing with the flying-line was generally the chosen form of sport.

Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885

And when he heard that which they proposed to him, he spoke to them a fable, saying that a certain player on the pipe saw fishes in the sea and played on his pipe, supposing that they would come out to land; but being deceived in his expectation, he took a casting-net and enclosed

The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883