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landing net

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of scoopnet used to bring to land or to hand a fish which has been caught.

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  • noun a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. fishing net
  2. fishnet

same context (24)

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  10. notochord
  11. parr
  12. peregrine
  13. ratan
  14. rebar
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  17. sharp-cornered
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  21. throw
  22. throwing-stick
  23. whitebait
  24. yellowtail

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