landing net

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   a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water

   Broaderfishnet

   Part offishing gear

Questions about landing net

What does landing net mean?

landing net means "a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water".

Is landing net a common word?

landing 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.