purse seine

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   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

   Broaderseine

Questions about purse seine

What does purse seine mean?

purse seine means "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".

Is purse seine a common word?

purse seine 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.