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Word Meanings - DRAWNET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.

Related words: (words related to DRAWNET)

  • CRABBER
    One who catches crabs.
  • CATCHWORK
    A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
  • CRABBISH
    Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker.
  • CATCHER
    The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
  • CATCHWORD
    The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,
  • CRABBING
    The foghting of hawks with each other. (more info) 1. The act or art of catching crabs.
  • CATCH TITLE
    A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
  • CATCHPENNY
    Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n.
  • CATCHDRAIN
    A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
  • CATCHFLY
    A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.
  • CATCHPOLL
    A bailiff's assistant.
  • CATCHWATER
    A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.
  • CATCHWEED
    See CLEAVERS
  • CRABBED
    1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak. 2. Characterized by harshness or roughness;
  • DRAGNET
    A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
  • CATCHY
    1. Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music. 2. Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used fig.; as, a catchy question. 3. Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or snatches;
  • CATCH-MEADOW
    meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.
  • CATCH CROP
    Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch"- crop`ping, n. Radishes . . . are often grown as a catch crop with other vegetables. L. H. Bailey.
  • CATCH-BASIN
    A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.
  • CATCHMENT
    A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.
  • SCATCH
    A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
  • CONSORTSHIP
    The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
  • BEAUCATCHER
    A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
  • CONY-CATCH
    To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.
  • WORD-CATCHER
    One who cavils at words.
  • TORPEDO CATCHER
    A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
  • BIRDCATCHER
    One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
  • SCATCHES
    Stilts.
  • COWCATCHER
    A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.
  • FLYCATCHER
    One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing. Note: The true flycatchers of the Old World are Oscines, and belong to the family Muscicapidæ, as the spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola). The American
  • CONY-CATCHER
    A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. Minsheu.

 

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