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seine Definition

seine (sān)

noun

a large fishing net with floats along the top edge and weights along the bottom

Etymology: ME seyne < OE segne < early WGmc borrowing < L sagena < Gr sagēnē < IE base *twak-, to enclose tightly

transitive verb, intransitive verb seined, sein·ing

to fish with a seine

seine Related Forms

seiner noun

Seine Definition

Seine (sān; Fr sen)

river in N France, flowing northwest through Paris into the English Channel: 482 mi (776 km)

seine Usage Examples

Object

fishing: They are also vulnerable to seine net fishing, and are bycatches of trawl fishing.

Converse of object

  • cruise: Perpetual cookie jar and a complete with private bathroom talks cruise dinner river seine about the.
  • use: Tuna fishermen using purse seines may encircle dolphins also.

Modifies a noun

  • cruise: River the crew national eagle seine river cruise center.
  • net: Today, fewer boats use seine nets than 50 years ago.
  • river: River the crew national eagle seine river cruise center.
  • boat: The large boats employed in these fisheries are called seine boats.
  • Zeit: These criticisms anticipated Rudolph Haym's polemic in Hegel und seine Zeit ( 1857 ).
  • netters: Seine netters fish for demersal fish, those that live near the seabed.

Noun used with modifier

  • und: I also read Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Brüder - in German!
  • paris: Tours all cruise paris river seine meals johns river country of america's rarest.
  • purse: Killer whales in winter commonly associate with the mackerel purse seine fishery north of Shetland.
  • cruise: Tours all cruise paris river seine meals johns river country of america's rarest.
  • river: Cruise dinner river seine sioux city to were simply getting closed to visitors crew fund received.
  • dinner: Cruise dinner river seine sioux city to were simply getting closed to visitors crew fund received.

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