pound net

noun

1. a trap for catching fish, consisting of a system of nets staked upright in the water and a rectangular enclosure or pound from which escape is impossible.

pound net

noun

1. a fishing trap having an arrangement of standing nets directing the fish into an enclosed net

Word History and Origins

Origin of pound net¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

On the Massachusetts coast salmon are now regularly taken each year at most of the important pound-net and trap fisheries.

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At one pound-net fishery in Provincetown he saw enough salmon to fill two sugar barrels.

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I found that the shanty of Captain Faulkner, who had charge of the pound net, was adjoining the hotel grounds.

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The next day but one I went to Faulkner's shanty, by previous appointment, for another trip to the pound net.

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Ramsay, dipping his oars quietly, steered toward the first pound net they had set.

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