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driftnet

driftnet is the alternative spelling of drift net.

Meaning of drift net

Noun

drift net (plural drift nets)

  1. A very long fishing net, supported by floats, that drifts with the current behind a fishing boat.

Verb

driftnet (third-person singular simple present driftnets, present participle driftnetting, simple past and past participle driftnetted)

  1. To fish using a drift net

Forms of driftnet

Noun
pluraldriftnets
Verb
third-person singular presentdriftnets
present participledriftnetting
past participledriftnetted
pastdriftnetted

Questions about driftnet

What does driftnet mean?
Driftnet means to fish using a drift net.
What is driftnet the alternative spelling of?
Driftnet is the alternative spelling of drift net.
What part of speech is driftnet?
Driftnet is a verb.
What is the past tense of driftnet?
The past tense of driftnet is driftnetted.

Words near driftnet in the dictionary

  1. driftlessness
  2. driftlet
  3. driftlets
  4. driftling
  5. driftlings
  6. driftnet
  7. driftnets
  8. driftnetted
  9. driftnetting
  10. driftpin
  11. driftpins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driftnet (page history and authors); drift net (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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