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/nˈɛtɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Netting n.

The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.

A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.

(Naut.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.

Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.

Netting n. Urine. (Prov. Eng.)

verb

Net v. t. (past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting)

To make into a net; to make in the style of network; as, to net silk.

To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. "And now I am here, netted and in the toils."

To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.

Net v. t. (past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting) To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.

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"Netting" Quotes from Famous Books

... the right and Private J. B. Deering that on the left. These soldiers soon learned to use their weapons so effectively that the Turk was discovered, early one morning, to have placed a protective wire-netting screen in front ...

— The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I • Herbert Brayley Collett

... windows are devoid of glass; they are really wind doors, closed when necessary, with a shutter on hinges like a cupboard door. Cats and birds are prevented from entering by means of wire screens—like a coarse netting of wire—and an upright iron bar keeps out more dangerous thieves. There is a copper for scalding milk. When in good order there is scarcely any odour in a dairy, notwithstanding the decidedly strong smell of ...

— The Toilers of the Field • Richard Jefferies

... extensive. On the other hand, the high water of the present spring has undoubtedly caused many fish to become spring salmon which would otherwise have run in the fall. Moreover, it is urged that a few years ago, when the number caught was about half as great as now, the amount of netting used was perhaps one-eighth as much. With a comparatively small outfit the canners caught half the fish, now with nets much larger and more numerous, they catch them all, scarcely any escaping during the fishing season ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various

... nothing of the fisher's craft, though, as a matter of report, they were well acquainted with its mysteries, and had often listened with delight to the feats performed by their respective fathers in the art of angling, spearing, and netting. ...

— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill

... this hour, any man has made a list of the species of North American birds that have become extinct during the past sixty years. The specialists have no time to spare from their compound differential microscopes, and the bird-killers are too busy with shooting, netting and clubbing to waste any time on such trifles as exterminated species. What does a market-shooter care about birds that can not be killed a second time? As for the farmers, they are so busy raising hogs and prices that their best friends, the birds, get scant ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

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