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- noun Plural form of
netting .
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Examples
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What is called the nettings ran from aft round the greater part of the vessel.
Mark Seaworth William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The hammocks were lashed up and stowed away in the "nettings," as the lattice-like receptacles are called, leaving the deck clear for the work of the day.
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Russell Doubleday 1910
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Life lines were stretched fore and aft; and on our weather side, attached to smokestack guys and rigging, were huge rope-nettings, hung there for the purpose of breaking the force of the seas and so saving our mess-room doors.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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A volley of stones thrummed and boomed the wire mosquito nettings that protected the windows.
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Once that camo nettings gone, the fire wont have much fuel.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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Once that camo nettings gone, the fire wont have much fuel.
Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008
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Once that camo nettings gone, the fire wont have much fuel.
Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008
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Once that camo nettings gone, the fire wont have much fuel.
Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008
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Once that camo nettings gone, the fire wont have much fuel.
Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008
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Yet, from time to time the elderly passenger, leaning over the bulwark nettings, looked with something like uneasiness at the horizon.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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