Definition of Netted

1. Adjective. Having open interstices or resembling a web.

Exact synonyms: Lacy, Netlike, Webbed, Webby, Weblike
Similar to: Reticular, Reticulate
Derivative terms: Web

Definition of Netted

1. Verb. (past of net) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Netted

1. nett [v] - See also: nett

Lexicographical Neighbors of Netted

netropsin
nets
netsful
netsplit
netsplits
netsplitted
netsplitting
netsuke
netsukes
netsurfer
netsurfers
netsurfing
nett
nettable
netted (current term)
netted melon
netter
netters
nettier
netties
nettiest
netting
nettings
nettle
nettle-leaved bellflower
nettle-leaved goosefoot
nettle-rash
nettle family
nettle rash

Literary usage of Netted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This game, which necessitated much hard running, was sometimes kept up for hours. A somewhat similar game, played with a netted ..."

2. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1866)
"24,) is nearly round and regularly ribbed; in size medium or rather small, skin green and thickly netted; flesh green, very juicy, with a rich and sugary ..."

3. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"I netted a lovely specimen with very dark borders to the wings. ... Beaten from bushes and also netted flying in the evening. I have taken it on the wing as ..."

4. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... of branches to be one above the other in thick foliage ; pumpkins are thus netted into a bundle for carrying; some kinds of traps are netted round). ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the dicotyledons the stem shows a tubular and hence prevailingly netted veined and this results in all degrees of lobation and division of the laminae. ..."

6. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1882)
"It has been found that the largest and fattest cod do not bite at the hook, but must be sought after with gill-nets, and it therefore follows that netted ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... Basho so that his farm netted him $15 per acre, and then had Wallinger'a property deeded to AD Smith, and that as a result of this transaction the said ..."

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