ˈlanding-net
A net for landing large fish.
| 1653 Walton Angler ii. 60 Reach me that Landing net. 1787 Best Angling (ed. 2) 15 A landing net, to land large fish with, and which are made with joints to fold up in a small compass. 1848 Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxvi, Fishing-rods, and landing-nets. 1885 Athenæum 1 Aug. 136/3 Mr. Webster does not appear to use any landing-net, which increases the difficulty of capturing fish. |
b. transf. ‘A pair of forceps with a small net attached to the blade, devised by A. Buchanan, for the removal of the calculus from the bladder in lithotomy’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1888).