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pound net

noun

  1. 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

  1. a fishing trap having an arrangement of standing nets directing the fish into an enclosed net
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

At one pound-net fishery in Provincetown he saw enough salmon to fill two sugar barrels.

I found that the shanty of Captain Faulkner, who had charge of the pound net, was adjoining the hotel grounds.

The next day but one I went to Faulkner's shanty, by previous appointment, for another trip to the pound net.

Ramsay, dipping his oars quietly, steered toward the first pound net they had set.

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