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nettings

nettings is the plural of netting.

Meaning of netting

Noun (1)

netting (countable and uncountable, plural nettings)

  1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
    • Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]1673 May (first performance), John Dryden, Amboyna. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1673, →OCLC, Act III, page 31
    Synonyms:
    mesh

Noun (2)

netting (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) Urine.
    • Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe.1557, Court Leet Records

Phrases with nettings

Questions about nettings

What is nettings the plural of?
Nettings is the plural of netting.

Words near nettings in the dictionary

  1. nettiest
  2. netting
  3. netting out
  4. netting-needle
  5. netting-needles
  6. nettings
  7. nettle
  8. nettle agent
  9. nettle agents
  10. nettle cloth
  11. nettle tree

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