Definition of Net fish

1. Verb. Fish with nets. "In the summer they like to go out and net fish"

Generic synonyms: Fish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Net Fish

nestsful
neststraw
net
net-earnings
net-like
net-net
net-raising
net-raisings
net-veined
net-zero
net ball
net call sign
net call signs
net earnings
net estate
net fish (current term)
net flux
net force
net heating value
net income
net knot
net lease
net leases
net melon
net metering
net minder
net minders
net net
net neutrality
net operating income

Literary usage of Net fish

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

1. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1921)
"Section 2 of this act reads thus: "The failure to renew the license, or make application therefor, for any fish-trap, pound-net, fish- wheel, ..."

2. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1895)
"Pound-net fish are always good and fresh. If gill-net fish are stale they are salted. The drowned fish from the gill-nets are sold at a reduced price, ..."

3. Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales by Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods (1883)
"13427 1736 951 1197 637 232 24 27 1SS 33 Quantity of fish condemned as being unfit for human food:—net fish, ..."

4. The Statutes at Large: Passed in the Several General Assemblies Held in His by Nova Scotia, Richard John Uniacke, Henry H. Cogswell, William Hill, W. B. Bliss, John Whidden, James F. Gray (1835)
"... That the said Overseers shall have power to remove powm >•«.« any wear, net, fish-garth, or other incumbrance that shall be found in the said River ..."

5. Seaside Studies in Natural History by Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Alexander Agassiz (1865)
"But until a fitter English name be found for it, why may it not bo called (in regard of what hath been before mentioned of it) a Basket-Fish, or a Net-Fish, ..."

6. Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry by Frantz Peckel Møller, Peter Møller Heyerdahl (1895)
"The averages are based upon the first four columns, and presuppose an equal number of livers from line-fish and net-fish, thus giving a figure that is a ..."

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