Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . o tliepurpose intended. Nets extended on stakes and forming a corral arementioned by the Roman writers. A purse or tunnel net was used at the end ofwing-nets. Six kinds of fishing-nets are mentioned by Oppiau. NET. 1522 I>ET. Three of these were casting, landing, and drsignets. The seine {Sagcim) is a Greek net in name ami inform. Corks or wooden blocks, to f
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . o tliepurpose intended. Nets extended on stakes and forming a corral arementioned by the Roman writers. A purse or tunnel net was used at the end ofwing-nets. Six kinds of fishing-nets are mentioned by Oppiau. NET. 1522 I>ET. Three of these were casting, landing, and drsignets. The seine {Sagcim) is a Greek net in name ami inform. Corks or wooden blocks, to float the upper edge ofa net, and weights to depress its lower edge, areseen in Egyjitian jiaintings ; on an old Egyptiannet now in the Berlin Museum; and are mentionedliy Pliny, Ovid, and other writers. The Grecian lishing-nets also had corks and leadenweights. Fishing was a great business in Egypt, and a|iainting in a tomb near the Pyramids represents alarge drag-net, with Hoats and sinkers, in the act ofbeing hauled by seven men, who stand on a deckedboat and act under the direction of an overseer, his a portion of a net with sinkers, from the BerlinMuseum. a. Fig. 3316, is an illustration from a painting in Fig.
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