set-netting

set-netting

English

Noun

set-netting (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of set netting
   • 1978, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 3605:

     The Ministry has initiated a study on set-netting, chiefly in the Bay of Plenty, to look at the effects of set-netting as a fishing method.

   • 1991, Margaret Klinowska, Dolphins, Porpoises and Whales of the World, →ISBN:

     The level of amateur set-netting is thus particularly high.

   • 1999, Crisca Bierwert, Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River: Coast Salish Figures of Power, →ISBN:

     Felix is a widely experienced fisherman; he has worked on everything from oceangoing commercial rigs to single-canoe drift netting on the river where he grew up, to the set-netting he does now in the canyon.

Verb

set-netting

1. present participle of set-net