2. Verb. (third-person singular of gillnet) ¹
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Definition of Gillnets
1. gillnet [v] - See also: gillnet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gillnets
Literary usage of Gillnets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Migratory Fishes of South America: Biology, Fisheries and Conservation Status by Joachim Carolsfeld (2003)
"gillnets may be as long as 3000 m and they drift as far as 20 km with the tide.
... Surubim, caught primarily with gillnets in floodplain lakes, ..."
2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"The method of capturing the lake trout is by gillnets, pound- nets, ... The majority,
however, are taken by means of gillnets operated by steam tugs. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"On a trip made with Captain C. Hyttel, of Racine, to his gillnets, set some
eighteen or twenty miles out from that city, he had a good opportunity to ..."
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