Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large dip-net, used on the Potomac and some rivers southward.

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Examples

  • Then in a skim-net, [18] with marvellous dexterity, he caught the almost invisible prawns as they darted away.

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

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