pound net
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.
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How to use pound net in a sentence
On the Massachusetts coast salmon are now regularly taken each year at most of the important pound-net and trap fisheries.
At one pound-net fishery in Provincetown he saw enough salmon to fill two sugar barrels.
I found that the shanty of Captain Faulkner, who had charge of the pound net, was adjoining the hotel grounds.
Favorite Fish and Fishing | James Alexander HenshallThe next day but one I went to Faulkner's shanty, by previous appointment, for another trip to the pound net.
Favorite Fish and Fishing | James Alexander HenshallRamsay, dipping his oars quietly, steered toward the first pound net they had set.
The Spell of the White Sturgeon | James Arthur Kjelgaard
British Dictionary definitions for pound net
a fishing trap having an arrangement of standing nets directing the fish into an enclosed net
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