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NETTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does netted mean? 

NETTED (adjective)
  The adjective NETTED has 1 sense:

1. having open interstices or resembling a webplay

  Familiarity information: NETTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NETTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having open interstices or resembling a web

Synonyms:

lacy; netlike; netted; webbed; webby; weblike

Similar:

reticular; reticulate (resembling or forming a network)


 Context examples 


We hoped to snare a falcon, said he presently, but we netted a carrion-crow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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