Definition of Dipnet

1. to scoop fish with a type of net [v -NETTED, -NETTING, -NETS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipnet

diplosegments
diploses
diplosis
diplosome
diplosomes
diplosomia
diplostemonous
diplostemony
diplotene
diplotenes
diploteratology
diplozoa
diplozoon
dipluran
dipmein
dipnet (current term)
dipnets
dipnetted
dipnetting
dipneumona
dipnoan
dipnoans
dipnoi
dipnoous
dipodal
dipodia
dipodic
dipodies
dipodomys
dipody

Literary usage of Dipnet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chinook texts by Franz Boas (1894)
"Now he took it that dipnet. ... He lifted it his dipnet. He said to him that his elder it was said to brother; ..."

2. The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon by Albert Samuel Gatschet (1890)
"net, cf. net, dipnet, dragnet; f-rod, vuka; f. ... kne- wa; fishing-net of any kind, tcha- lash; cf. net, dipnet, dragnet; fishing-place, ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... were so wary as almost to defy my best efforts with the dipnet, and the excitement of those taken was incessant, even during the usually sluggish period ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"... with the aid of a rope ladder and a pole and dipnet, took two sets of Baird's Cormorant containing lour ii;^ ..."

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