PURSE SEINE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A seine designed to be set by two boats around a school of fish and then closed at the bottom by means of a line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("purse seine" is a kind of...):

seine (a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom)

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