fishing net

Questions about fishing net

What does fishing net mean?

fishing net means "a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in".

What is another word for fishing net?

Close synonyms include fishnet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fishing net a common word?

fishing net is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.