drop nets

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of drop net.
  drop net

  noun

  a fishing net that is dropped into the water and left there to be swiftly taken up again once fish have swum into it.

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drop nets

They drop nets for half an hour across 400 different spots in the sea.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023

The Mevagissey fleet puts out to the grounds to-night, to anchor and drop nets as usual.

From The Mayor of Troy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Nets of all shapes and sizes, seine nets with their bobbing floats, bag nets of a hundred kinds, drop nets, and casting nets.

From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

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