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day-net

day-net noun: a net for catching small birds.

Noun

day-net (plural day-nets)

  1. (obsolete) A net for catching small birds.
    • why such setting up with corks, straitening with whalebones; why is it but, as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III...

Forms of day-net

pluralday-nets

Questions about day-net

What does day-net mean?
Day-net means a net for catching small birds.
What part of speech is day-net?
Day-net is a noun.
What is the plural of day-net?
The plural of day-net is day-nets.

Words near day-net in the dictionary

  1. day-long
  2. day-man
  3. day-men
  4. day-moth
  5. day-moths
  6. day-net
  7. day-nets
  8. day-nighter
  9. day-nighters
  10. day-old
  11. day-olds

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