set-netting

A form of set netting — The practice of fishing with a set net.

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Meanings

nounset-netting (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of set netting.

    The level of amateur set-netting is thus particularly high.

    1991, Margaret Klinowska, Dolphins, Porpoises and Whales of the World, →ISBN
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    The Ministry has initiated a study on set-netting, chiefly in the Bay of Plenty, to look at the effects of set-netting as a fishing method.

    1978, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 3605

    Felix is a widely experienced fisherman; he has worked on everything from oceangoing commercial rigs to single-canoe drift netting on the river where he grew up, to the set-netting he does now in the canyon.

    1999, Crisca Bierwert, Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River: Coast Salish Figures of Power, →ISBN
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of set-net
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APA

set-netting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/set-netting

MLA

“set-netting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/set-netting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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