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day-nets

day-nets is the plural of day-net.

Meaning of day-net

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...

Questions about day-nets

What is day-nets the plural of?
Day-nets is the plural of day-net.

Words near day-nets in the dictionary

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

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