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What is "landing net"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
landing net
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the trout began to tire, I fumbled for the landing net.
▪ My chair and everything apart from the rod, landing net and loaf, are left up the bank.
▪ Then I fetch my rod, landing net, loaf and rod-rest.
▪ Use a large landing net, somewhat larger than the size of fish you hope to catch.
▪ You need only one landing net, one keepnet, one set of scales, etc. if you fish close to each other.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landing net

Landing \Land"ing\, a. Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.

Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.

Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.

Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.

Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.

Wiktionary
landing net

n. (context fishing English) A fishnet mounted on a ring which is connected to a handle, used by anglers to secure a catch when pulling it out of the water by the line to which it is hooked.

WordNet
landing net

n. a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water