day-net

noun

A net for catching small birds.

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Meanings

nounday-net (plural day-nets)

plural day-nets

  1. obsoleteA net for catching small birds.

    why such setting up with corks, straitening with whalebones; why is it but, as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection iii
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