lave net
[Of unknown origin; cf. lammet, lam-net (s.v. lam v.).]
(See quot. 1883.)
| 1875 Buckland Log-bk. 346 Three fishermen were standing waist deep..working their lave nets. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 125 Lave Net..used in the estuary to take salmon on the sands in the shallow water. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 30 July 8/2 On Thursday Mr. Henry Cadogan, with a lave net, caught in the same water a young shark. |