Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act, art, or industry of making nets.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Going back at least 200 years, Menesses says his family passed down the art of net-making.
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NOGUCHI: Trey Menesses says the oil has made him unsure of the future of net-making.
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NOGUCHI: Now he's torn about whether his 18-year-old son, Erwin III, also known as Trey, should take up net-making.
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Now he's using his net-making skills to make pompoms, like the kind cheerleaders use, which help detect incoming oil.
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I'm leaving for Montana in 15 minutes and still have to pack, so only have time to add that I'm pretty sure Louis Vuitton has set up a bed net-making factory in Darfur.
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After this last stint of spiral netting, I'm not so sure whether it was used as an approach for net-making in the middle ages.
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During a presentation on Native American net-making technology, one young person contributed details because her grandfather makes them in the same fashion in Puerto Rico.
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When not otherwise occupied, my mother also worked at the art of net-making.
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In Samoa, net-making is the same now as it was of old.
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A good priest had tried to induce his people to share this rich harvest by starting a fishery school for boys at Baltimore, where net-making and every other branch of the industry was taught.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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