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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of scoopnet used to bring to land or to hand a fish which has been caught. A landing-net to be used in a boat or on shore has a two-jointed handle; and for use in wading it has a short handle attached to an elastic cord and suspended from the shoulder.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water

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