gill net

[ gil ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a curtainlike net, suspended vertically in the water, with meshes of such a size as to catch by the gills a fish that has thrust its head through.

gill net

/ ɡɪl /

fishing a net suspended vertically in the water to trap fish by their gills in its meshes

An Americanism dating back to 1790–1800

Gently he nosed against the gill net, seeking a way through.

Foot by foot he reeled in thirty yards of tattered gill net.

Served through it all, then came back here to live on the birds and fish he can get with a light rifle and a gill-net.

He developed the fisheries of Otsego Lake on a big scale, having introduced the gill net as a means of catching bass.

Red was to box three rounds with a man named Tomingo, a dark-faced foreigner who piloted a gill-net boat.

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