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Answer for the clue "Of nets ", 7 letters:
retiary
Word definitions for retiary in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retiary \Re`ti*a*ry\, a. [Cf. LL. retiarius.] Netlike. This work is in retiary, or hanging textures. --Sir T. Browne. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders. Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. Scholastic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 net-like 2 Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; said of certain spiders. 3 Armed with a net; hence, skilful at entangle. n. (context zoology English) Any spider that spins webs to catch its prey.
Usage examples of retiary.
To de Chemault, the account by Lymond of this affair was retiary in its lack of substance.
And no mean Observations hereof there is in the Mathematicks of the neatest Retiary Spider, which concluding in fourty-four Circles, from five Semidiameters beginneth that elegant texture.