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Drift net

Drift \Drift\, a. That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
--Kane.

Drift anchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n.

Drift epoch (Geol.), the glacial epoch.

Drift net, a kind of fishing net.

Drift sail. Same as Drag sail. See under Drag, n.

Wiktionary
drift net

n. (context fishing English) A very long fishing net, supported by floats, that drifts with the current behind a fishing boat

WordNet
drift net

n. a large fishnet supported by floats; it drifts with the current

Usage examples of "drift net".

Brando and Canon Yaryan got themselves arrested for using a drift net to catch two steelheads in the Puyallup River near Tacoma, where a recently issued injunction forbids net-fishing by Indians or anyone else.

How about we lost a huge drift net that got tangled up with a lot of flotsam at a certain time and place, and the ship that left it there had to run from a storm.

It was a sort of drift net for anything the sky happened to throw.