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noun

Netting n.

The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.

A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.

(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)

To make into a net; to make in the style of network; as, to net silk.

To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. "And now I am here, netted and in the toils."

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

... Evan was thinking of what Watson had done, and said. It was a fact that banks gave three per cent. interest on deposits, which they used on speculations in Wall Street and elsewhere; those speculations netting them such high dividends that great buildings had to be erected to conceal them. And how was the customer treated who wanted to borrow a few hundred dollars in an emergency? Even though he had been a ...

— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen

... her weary round-through the inclement winter and spring, sometimes lecturing to meager and sometimes to crowded houses but netting an average of $100 a week, which was religiously applied to the payment of the debt. She returned to Chicago to lecture again in the Dime course, Sunday, March 26, and says in her diary: "An immense audience, ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... Julia's, and brought us to an anchor off Eskimo Island. Here we had one of our regular fights with the mosquitoes, the engagement perhaps being a trifle hotter than usual, for they swarmed down the companion way every time the "mosquito door," of netting on a light frame hinged to the hatch house, was opened, in brigades and divisions and finally by whole army corps, till we were forced to retreat to our bunks, drive out the intruding hosts, which paid no respect whatever to our limited 6x3x3 private ...

— Bowdoin Boys in Labrador • Jonathan Prince (Jr.) Cilley

... were cut out of the flag-officer's hands. The lines were immediately replaced by a blue-jacket. The Boston was struck by three shells, one starting a fire in a stateroom and another in the hammock-netting, while a third passed through the foremast near Captain Wildes. The squadron passed four times before the enemy, slightly decreasing the distance on each run, and on the fifth, believing that the depth of water was greater than he had ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 • Various

... mosquitoes. Night and day they never ceased to nag us. We wore veils and had gloves on our hands, so that under our armour we were able to grin defiance at them. But on the other side of that netting they buzzed in an angry grey cloud. To raise our veils and take a drink was to be assaulted ferociously. As we walked we could feel them resisting our progress, and it seemed as if we were forcing our way through solid banks of them. If we rested, they alighted in such ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

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