landing net

American  

noun

Angling.

1. a small, bag-shaped net with a handle at the mouth, for scooping a hooked fish out of the water and bringing it to shore or into a boat.

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landing net British  

noun

1. angling a loose long-handled net on a triangular frame for lifting hooked fish from the water

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Etymology

Origin of landing net

First recorded in 1645–55

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Example Sentences

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landing net

Soon, Zach had the fish to the surface and dad scooped it up with a landing net.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2014

Pitts grabbed the long-handled landing net and charged forward.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2014

Once captured in the landing net, lying on the deck of the boat, you need sunglasses to look at them even during the darkest days of winter.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2011

It was impossible to see the landing net, and we often knocked them off the hook when trying to scoop them up.

From Lost Pond by Henry Abbott

They employ also several sorts of hand-nets for catching fish: one is very similar to the folding nets of entomologists, and another is like a landing net.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

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