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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A large fishing net buoyed up by floats that is carried along with the current or tide.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A gill-net supported upright in the water by floats and distended by means of weights below.

Wiktionary

  1. n. fishing A very long fishing net, supported by floats, that drifts with the current behind a fishing boat

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. a kind of fishing net.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a large fishnet supported by floats; it drifts with the current

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  1. fishnet
  1. fishing net

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  1. drift-fisher
  1. drift-boat
  1. cimline
  1. drift-netter
  1. drift-fish
  1. ghost net
  1. bowl
  1. cuddy
  1. drift

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