Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A net with a long handle or pole, usually a circular rim made of metal, and a conical bag, used to catch fish by dipping it into the water; a scoop-net.
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Examples
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Arrived at the pool, he threw down the dip-net and sack, and drew from his hip-pocket what looked like a large, fat candle.
MOON-FACE 2010
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Early next morning I saw him go by with a dip-net and gunnysack, and Bellona trotting at his heels.
MOON-FACE 2010
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Bert Wainwright, variously advised and commanded by his sister, Rita, and by Paula and her sisters, Lute and Ernestine, was striving with a dip-net to catch a particularly gorgeous flower of a fish whose size and color and multiplicity of fins and tails had led Paula to decide to segregate him for the special breeding tank in the fountain of her own secret patio.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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The psycho turns Claverhouse's cattle into the fields, poisons his dog Mars with strychnine, sets fire to his haystacks and barn, arranges to have his property foreclosed, insults him to his face — yet Claverhouse remains cheerful, laughing, going "fishing" for trout with a stick of dynamite, a dip-net and gunnysack.
“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .” 2008
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Flocks of ducks and geese wheeled above the Columbia, clouds of spray and mist rose where native dip-net fishermen had erected elaborate scaffolding.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Flocks of ducks and geese wheeled above the Columbia, clouds of spray and mist rose where native dip-net fishermen had erected elaborate scaffolding.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Flocks of ducks and geese wheeled above the Columbia, clouds of spray and mist rose where native dip-net fishermen had erected elaborate scaffolding.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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When approached with a dip-net, it is evident, from the acceleration of their movements, that they are attempting to escape.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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There the sail-boat already had preceded them, and the master of the weir, having taken its place, from the dip-net was loading his dory with massive fare of frosted silver and fusing jewel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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Jim took his dip-net and stepped into the motor-boat, and they ran up to the lobster-car.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman
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