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Bow-net. World English Historical Dictionary

Bow-net. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bow-net [f. BOW sb.1 + NET: possibly the original form of the thing explained the name.]

1   1.  A kind of trap used for lobsters, crayfish, etc., consisting now of a cylinder of wicker-work closed at one end and having a narrow, funnel-shaped entrance at the other; also called, a bow-weel.

2 a. 1000.  Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 167. Nassa boʓenet, uel leap. Ibid., 181. Nassa, æwul, uel boʓanet.

3 1552.  Huloet, Bowe nette or weele, nassa.

4 1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 37. They take them in bow-nets … whereinto they enter for the food, but being entrapped cannot go forth again.

5 1639.  Horn & Robotham, Gate Lang. Unl., xxxviii. § 427. A Fisherman fisheth with a bownet or weel, in a river.

6 1883.  G. C. Davies, Norfolk Broads, xix. 145. Bow-nets set in the runs … for tench and eels.

7   2.  A kind of net attached to a bow or arch of wood or metal, used by fowlers.

8 1875.  ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. IV. i. § 4. 293. [Hawks] must be captured either by the bow-net or the hand-net.

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