setnet

English

Noun

setnet (plural setnets)

1. Alternative form of set net
   • 1980, International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Fish Behavior and Its Use in the Capture and Culture of Fishes, →ISBN:

     The large-scale setnet (Fig. 1) is the most important type of setnet and its construction is more complex than that of smaller nets.

   • 2005, Essential Fish Habitat Designation and Minimization of Adverse Impacts:

     In California, setnets are only allowed outside of three miles.

   • 2009, A.N. Shukla, Fishing Techniques, →ISBN, page 72:

     The most effective way of preventing loss and damage is to completely submerge the usual type of floating setnet so that it becomes a submerged or bottom setnet.

Verb

setnet (third-person singular simple present setnets, present participle setnetting, simple past and past participle setnetted)

1. Alternative form of set net
   • 1997, Leslie Leyland Fields, The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, →ISBN:

     I'd never setnetted before, so we did a lot of things the hard way, the wrong way.

   • 2003, Jack Ranweiler, For the Love of Fishing, →ISBN, page 179:

     He had never setnetted before, but he was used to hard work and roughing it, and he was eager to learn.

   • 2017, Dave Atcheson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN:

     I learned early on that the reason Bob setnetted, the reason he made it his job, was because it allowed him to live here in Prince William Sound for months on end.

Anagrams

• setten, tenets