ˈdraw-net
= drag-net; also ‘a net with large meshes used for catching the larger varieties of fowls’.
| 1624 Heywood Captives v. iii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Bee hee a Cristian or beleeve in Mawmett, I such a one this night tooke in my drawnett. 1630 in Lex Londinensis (1680) 201 Any Draw-net or Coulter-net. 1654 Vilvain Theorem. Theol. vii. 192 The Church Militant is a mixed multitud of good and bad, as a draw-net. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v., If you would have a Draw-Net with square Meshes. 1879 Queen's Printers' Aids to Bible Gloss., Drag, a large draw net. |