seine

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   fish with a seine

   Catch fish with a seine.

2. 2
   noun

   A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.

   We all went on Monday Evening to the sea shore, to see the scene Drawn: this is a most curious Work: and all done by Women.

3. 3
   verb

   To use a seine, to fish with a seine.

   This was especially the case with seining for pilchards.

Common collocations

• purse seine Noun + noun

From Old English seġne, from Proto-West Germanic *sagīna, from Latin sagēna, from Ancient Greek σαγήνη (sagḗnē, “dragnet”), of unknown origin.

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