Definition of "net-maker" [net-maker]

• One whose business is the making of nets. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But we are glad that the net-maker did not make the hammock in a fit of divine carelessness."
• "We may fling ourselves into a hammock in a fit of divine carelessness; but we are glad that the net-maker did not make the net in"
• "Old Kala-hoi, the net-maker, had ceased work for the day, and was seated on a mat outside his little house, smoking his pipe, looking dreamily out upon the blue waters of Leone Bay, on Tutuila Island, and enjoying the cool evening breeze that blew upon his bare limbs and played with the two scanty tufts of snow-white hair that grew just above his ears."