Seine
[seɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom.
(noun.) a French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
(verb.) fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine.
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Definition
(n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.
Typist: Randall
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Net (large).
Typist: Nicholas
Definition
n. a large net for catching fish.—v.t. to catch with such.—ns. Seine′-boat; Seine′-en′gine a steam-engine used in hauling seines; Seine′-gang a body of men engaged in seining with their boats and other gear; Sein′er one who seines: a vessel engaged in purse-seining for mackerel; Sein′ing the art of using the seine.
Editor: Ryan
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small cut stones.
Editor: Louise
Examples
- A murky red and yellow sky, and a rising mist from the Seine, denoted the approach of darkness. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Trouvé made an application of the storage battery and electric motor to a small boat on the Seine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Jehl, Hipple, and Force assisted Mr. Batchelor to install the lamp-works of the French Edison Company at Ivry-sur-Seine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They take as much genuine pleasure in building a barricade as they do in cutting a throat or shoving a friend into the Seine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Perier, had eight years previously made some experiments with steam-boats on the Seine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In this year the liquefaction of oxygen, by Pictet, of Geneva, and Cailletet, of Chatillon-sur-Seine, was independently accomplished. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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