English

Noun

day-net ‎(plural day-nets)

1. (obsolete) A net for catching small birds.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.2.2.iii:

     why such setting up with corks, straitening with whalebones; why is it but, as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?