Netting
['netɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Net
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Net
(n.) The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.
(n.) A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Urine.
Inputed by Elliot
Examples
- I was shown into a pretty but rather close drawing-room, and there sat Agnes, netting a purse. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Weaving, braiding, and netting are very old arts, but the art of knitting is comparatively modern. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Huge flies, ignorant of larders and wire-netting, and quite in a savage state, buzzed about him without knowing that he was a man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The window-curtains were lace; each chair and sofa had its own particular veil of netting, or knitting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Rosamond rose and reached her netting, and then said, Do you care about dancing at all? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I held the mosquito netting in my hands. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Shall I be netting a purse, or will it have a better effect to put on my gloves and be doing nothing? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This is mosquito netting. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I was thinking now, that this little netting-box is pretty and lady-like! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mrs. Sparsit netting at the fireside, in a side-saddle attitude, with one foot in a cotton stirrup. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A French modification of this apparatus, in glass vessels protected by cane netting, called a gasogene, has recently been introduced, and is extensively used. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- About 2,000 United States patents have been granted in the class of knitting and netting, and the value of hosiery and knit goods in the United States in 1890 was $67,241,013. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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