bow net

American  

[boh] / boʊ /

noun

1. a clam-shaped net for trapping hawks, set open and baited with a pigeon, and closed upon the hawk by means of a trigger sprung from a blind.

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Example Sentences

I found a bow net set among the weeds, and there were three large tench in it. 

From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher

For the netting of hawks by a contrivance called the bow net, which was formerly used in England, see Blaine's "Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports."

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

As soon as one fails to come for a meal, it must be at once caught with a bow net or a snare the first time it comes back, or it will be lost.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

The drag and bow net fishers would waste their labour among the breakers, the points of which would be destructive only to their nets.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

There was a paddle still in it, and a bow net set on hoops, such as we were wont to use for eels and tench.

From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)