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Netting   /nˈɛtɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Netting  n.  
1.
The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.
2.
A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.
3.
(Naut.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.
Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.


Netting  n.  Urine. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Net  v. t.  (past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting)  
1.
To make into a net; to make in the style of network; as, to net silk.
2.
To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. "And now I am here, netted and in the toils."
3.
To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.


Net  v. t.  (past & past part. netted; pres. part. netting)  To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.





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"Netting" Quotes from Famous Books



... it takes me from daybreak till sundown to knit one pair. I don't know why Aunt Jemimy should have said what she did about my socks; I'm sure Stephen hadn't been any nearer them than he had to the cabbage-bag Lurindy was netting, and there wasn't such a nice knitter in town as I, everybody will tell you. She always did seem to take particular pleasure in hectoring ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various
... Our three travellers were quite charmed with their proficiency in the new mode of progression, when a sudden thaw set in and damped not only their spirits but their shoes. The netting and lines became flabby. The moccasins, with which Hendrick had supplied them from the bundle he carried for his own use, were reduced to something of the nature of tripe. The damp snow, which when rendered powdery by frost ...
— The Crew of the Water Wagtail • R.M. Ballantyne
... round that evening and hewed down an apple-tree under the light of the moon to make room for the maybird-run, and in the morning he brought a large roll of wire-netting, and the next day he built a wooden house, and the day after that he brought his five maybirds, and the day after that he came round and asked for some cinders. He sprinkled these all over the enclosure, and I watched him while ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 29, 1920 • Various
... star-board, on the bridge deck, the pilot saw the crushed mess-room door, roughly bulkheaded against the pounding seas. Abreast of it, on the smokestack guys, and being taken down by the bos'n and a sailor, hung the huge square of rope netting which had failed to break ...
— The Strength of the Strong • Jack London
... He fetched a crate along up from town in a wagon he hired; and say, inside the same was the finest pair o' silver blacks I ever saw. Then some more wagons begun to show up fetchin' rolls of wire netting, and bags o' cement to make concrete with. Mr. Coombs had gone into the fur raisin' business for keeps, and I was to have an interest in the game. He had an agreement all written out that both o' us signed before a justice, which fixed things up. Half the proceeds o' the fur farm was ...
— At Whispering Pine Lodge • Lawrence J. Leslie


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