Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A net used as a protection against flies, as in an open window to prevent their entrance.
- noun A fringe or a net used to protect a horse from flies.
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Examples
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Down her broad back there hung a great gauzy lace veil, big enough to make a fly-net for a cow camel in summer.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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The mere touch of clothing was almost unbearable in the heat, but it was better to swathe the head in a fly-net and roll a blanket round the outlying portions of the body, than to strip to the buff and lie exposed to the attacks of those damnable flies.
With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett
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Glancing from my window -- as I frequently did while I was at work -- whom should I see, with a fly-net over his shoulder, but Wilton, one of the three fellows in against me for the scholarship!
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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A megaphone can be used as a beehive, and a hammock can be turned into a fly-net for a horse, but you never think of doing so; and, furthermore, you _can_ say positively that while the things may be used for these purposes, the original maker never, never, never thought of it. "
The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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