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Definition of Dragnets
1. dragnet [n] - See also: dragnet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dragnets
Literary usage of Dragnets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"This has been elsewhere called the process of ' ' casting dragnets in the wide
world of thought . . . with the expectation that out of the vast slimy ..."
2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"They use, also, dragnets between two ships. A small boat, painted white, ...
In Borneo, in the enclosures of stakes, dragnets, casting-nets, traps, ..."
3. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"... nets, mines, smoke-raising devices, and dragnets. "I sought to get patrol
boats built here and -buy them abroad. I scoured the world over with missions, ..."
4. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"The methods of capture are dragnets on the coast, and on the rivers drag-nets also,
... In the rivers, fishing is exercised by means of dragnets ..."
5. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"All vessels, when trawling, dredging, or fishing with any kind of dragnets or
lines, shall exhibit, from some part of the vessel where they can be best seen ..."
6. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"... for the improvement of manufactures and machines in the various articles of
hats, crapes, dragnets,, mills, marbled paper, ..."
7. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"... great scheme and all their dragnets could not bring forward anything to compare
with the fresh manpower the United States had now brought into France. ..."
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