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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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Etymology of 'Netting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Netting" Quotes from Famous Books

... the scrubs, may sometimes be mistaken for this, as it bears in appearance a similar fruit; but on being tasted, it is bitter and nauseous. This in the Murray dialect is called "netting." The natives prepare it by baking it in an oven, which takes the bitter taste away. The "netting" is earlier in ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

... without demur or question. And there flashed on his memory a grey morning, not unlike this one, when he had missed his father at breakfast: "He had been called away suddenly," Humility explained, "and there would be no lessons that day," and she kept the boy indoors all the morning and busy with a netting-stitch he had been bothering her ...

— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... beings. But all this debris had long since been cleared away. Under the skilful hands of the Russians the rebuilt trenches had taken on a neat and orderly appearance. The earthen walls had been revetted with wire chicken-netting, and instead of tramping through ankle-deep mud, we had beneath our feet neat walks of corduroy. We tramped for what seemed interminable miles in the darkness, always zig-zagging. Now and then we would come ...

— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell

... felt by the sterner sex of the party that he stole a march upon them. While they were smoking, after their kind, in clusters on the lawn, it would suddenly be observed that he was sitting in the drawing-room, giving a lesson in netting, or trying over a new song encircled by young ladyhood. It was felt that he took an unfair advantage. What business had he to come down to tea in that absurd amber plush smoking-suit, just because the elder ...

— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley

... generally go together—Scampton, that chap in the cricket cap standing by the door. He's A1. He won't come near now, though, because he says he's terrified of girls. He's going to give me a rabbit, and I shall make a hutch for it out of one of those packing-cases. See, I've bought a piece of wire-netting for the door. There's heaps of room at the bottom of the garden. I believe I'll ask him to bring it ...

— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

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