bow net

[ boh ]

noun

1. a clam-shaped net for trapping hawks, set open and baited with a pigeon, and closed upon the hawk by means of a trigger sprung from a blind.

Example Sentences

As soon as one fails to come for a meal, it must be at once caught with a bow net or a snare the first time it comes back, or it will be lost.

From Project Gutenberg

I found a bow net set among the weeds, and there were three large tench in it. 

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Use or attempt to use, in any navigable river, any Bow Net.

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A remotely triggered bow net, a hooplike device with a spring mechanism, lay on the ground.

From New York Times

The drag and bow net fishers would waste their labour among the breakers, the points of which would be destructive only to their nets.

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