Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A net stretched on a conical frame, which closes the outlet of a fishway, and into which fish may fall.
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Examples
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Statistical consideration on the composition of fish species of the set-net catch in Sagami Bay.
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"She'll put back for certain," I said; and I had no more thought o 'seeing her than John's set-net that was carried round the point o' Monday. '
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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Keep people from remembering that you independently attended government meetings amd British oil company, only fish a commercial "set-net" on the Nushagak Bay / Wood River estuary a few weeks a year on a permit using your old residential address up there and, despite your claims of opposed Native American subsistence and cultural rights.
NotionsCapital 2008
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“She’ll put back for certain,” I said; and I had no more thought o’ seeing her than John’s set-net that was carried round the point o’ Monday.’
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Ernie Gajewski is the guy who bought Eugene Muravieff’s set-net permit.”
A Taint in the Blood Stabenow, Dana 2004
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“Eugene’s set-net permit was sold to an Ernie Gajewski.”
A Taint in the Blood Stabenow, Dana 2004
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Eugene needed to keep his set-net site so he could fish, but he couldn’t keep it in his name.
A Taint in the Blood Stabenow, Dana 2004
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MuraviefF had had a commercial fishing license for a set-net site in Seldovia, which had evidently been sold at some point, because Kurt’s notes indicated it had been transferred to an Ernie Gajewski.
A Taint in the Blood Stabenow, Dana 2004
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