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Webster 1913 Edition
Netting
1.
The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.
2.
A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.
3.
(Naut.)
A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.
Totten.
Netting needle
, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See , 3.
Needle
, Noun.
Net′ting
,Noun.
Urine.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Netting
NETTING
,Noun.
1.
A piece of network.2.
A complication of ropes fastened across each other, to be stretched along the upper part of a ships quarter to contain hammocks. Netting is also employed to hammocks. Netting is also employed to hold the fore and main-top-mast sails when stowed. Netting is also extended along a ships gunwale in engagements, to prevent the enemy from boarding.