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bow net
[ boh ]
noun
- a clam-shaped net for trapping hawks, set open and baited with a pigeon, and closed upon the hawk by means of a trigger sprung from a blind.
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As soon as one fails to come for a meal, it must be at once caught with a bow net or a snare the first time it comes back, or it will be lost.
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I found a bow net set among the weeds, and there were three large tench in it.
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Use or attempt to use, in any navigable river, any Bow Net.
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A remotely triggered bow net, a hooplike device with a spring mechanism, lay on the ground.
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The drag and bow net fishers would waste their labour among the breakers, the points of which would be destructive only to their nets.
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