OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5651

net

/nɛt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
red
A mesh of string, cord or rope.
a hairnet; a mosquito net; a tennis net
red
A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.…
red
A trap.
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
caught in the prosecuting attorney's net
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