gill net

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   a flat fishnet suspended vertically in the water to entangle fish by their gills

   Broaderfishnet

Questions about gill net

What does gill net mean?

gill net means "a flat fishnet suspended vertically in the water to entangle fish by their gills".

Is gill net a common word?

gill net is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.