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pound net
noun
- a trap for catching fish, consisting of a system of nets staked upright in the water and a rectangular enclosure or pound from which escape is impossible.
pound net
noun
- a fishing trap having an arrangement of standing nets directing the fish into an enclosed net
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pound net1
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Example Sentences
On the Massachusetts coast salmon are now regularly taken each year at most of the important pound-net and trap fisheries.
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At one pound-net fishery in Provincetown he saw enough salmon to fill two sugar barrels.
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I found that the shanty of Captain Faulkner, who had charge of the pound net, was adjoining the hotel grounds.
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The next day but one I went to Faulkner's shanty, by previous appointment, for another trip to the pound net.
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Ramsay, dipping his oars quietly, steered toward the first pound net they had set.
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