Definition of "fishing-net" [fishing-net]

• Same as fish-net. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "These include a fishing-net maker, a matchstick maker, a mustard maker, and four animal insemination and breeding companies."
• "Eunuch Masrur to the town and walked about the streets and markets and, as they were threading a narrow alley, they came upon a very old man with a fishing-net and crate to carry small fish on his head, and in his hand a staff; and, as he walked at a leisurely pace, he repeated these lines: — They say me: — Thou shinest a light to mankind"
• "After reading more than 50,000 pages of fiction (as one of the judges of the Man Booker Prize), I take away an introduction to two or three immense new talents I had not known before, and a clear memory of reading what was to become my favourite sentence: "The South African pulled his short shorts back up from around his ankles and positioned his genitals gamely inside the fishing-net interior"."