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noun

Netting n.

The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.

A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.

(Naut.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.

Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.

Netting n. Urine. (Prov. Eng.)

verb

Net v. t. (past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting)

To make into a net; to make in the style of network; as, to net silk.

To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. "And now I am here, netted and in the toils."

To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.

Net v. t. (past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting) To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.

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Etymology of 'Netting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Netting" Quotes from Famous Books

... not crowded with amusements, dreaded their coming, and when they did call, endured their presence as an unavoidable evil. The worthy matrons were all much older than herself and, while sitting over their cakes, stewed fruit, and hippocras, knitting, spinning or netting, talked of the hard times during the siege, of the cares of children and servants, washing and soap-making, or subjected to a rigid scrutiny the numerous incomprehensible and reprehensible acts other women were said ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... portly waist, gave it the appearance of a buxom colored lady presiding over the assembly. The kerosene lamps stood in a row on the high, narrow mantelpiece, each chimney protected from the flies by a brown paper bag inverted over its head. Two plaster Samuels praying under the pink mosquito netting adorned the ends of the shelf. There were screens at all the windows, and Diadema fidgeted nervously when a visitor came in the mosquito netting door, for fear a fly should sneak in ...

— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

... and hustled my mother and us little ones out of the wheat-field into the big wood by which it is bordered. As we left the field I saw two tall creatures that afterwards I came to know were men. They were placing wire-netting round the field—you see I understand now what all these things were, although of course I did not at the time. The two ends of the wire netting had nearly come together. There was only a little gap left ...

— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard

... was more distinctly heard. Three hundred feet, at the most, separated the two ships. Almost immediately a dog of great height appeared on the starboard netting, and clung there, barking ...

— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne

... two white curtains, draped back to reveal a swinging bird-cage or a hanging basket full of flowers. Below this flower-basket screening the lower window-panes there is a frame with a very fine wire netting, which prevents pedestrians from looking into the rooms. Behind the wire netting, in the divisions between the netting and the framework of the window, there are tables ornamented with china, glass, flowers, statuettes and other trifles. On the stone sills of windows ...

— Holland, v. 1 (of 2) • Edmondo de Amicis

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