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Webster 1913 Edition

Netting

Net′ting

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Noun.
[From
Net
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Noun.
]
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
Needle
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Noun.
, 3.

Net′ting

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Noun.
Urine.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Netting

NETTING

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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.

Definition 2024

netting

netting

English

Noun

netting ‎(countable and uncountable, plural nettings)

  1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
    • January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3):
      The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. [...] Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.
  2. (Britain, dialect, dated) urine
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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netting

  1. present participle of net

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