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Definition of Nettings
1. netting [n] - See also: netting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nettings
Literary usage of Nettings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"nettings nettings are necessary in all the non-rigid types of balloons to restrain
the gas bag to its proper form and to distribute the load of car and ..."
2. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"To meet these requirements, cordage of very high strength is usually employed
for nettings, knotted into meshes varying with the size of balloon, ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... ordnance and nettings. With his characteristic waywardness he returned to the
ill- fated Squirrel. On 9 Sept in the afternoon, after emerging from a ..."
4. Professional recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c by Francis Liardet (1849)
"Quarter-deck Splinter-nettings. These nettings are so little required during ...
Boarding-nettings. We have heard of boarding-nettings being made to resist ..."
5. Report on the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries at the University of Liverpool, and by University of Liverpool, Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory, University of Liverpool Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory (1907)
"The number of tow-nettings taken there represented more than one every week, ...
Then at intervals the fisheries steamer took tow-nettings in various parts ..."
6. Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843: And by William Hutcheon Hall, William Dallas Bernard (1844)
"... town—Killed and wounded on the 7th January—Number of guns taken—Admiral Kwan
loses his button of rank—New Chinese boarding-nettings — Novel application ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"They are chiefly imitations of Tibullus, and display a cultivated taste and warm
imagination. lions nettings, 'so as to form a barricade against small shot ..."
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