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If the canneries don't pay good prices these independent fishermen, with their fast, powerful rigs, will seine the salmon under the packers' noses and run their catch down to the Puget Sound plants.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

If Peyton comes down with his seine to haul at my shore, I will seine salted herrings enough for us both.

From The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia by Wharton, James