Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo use a seine, to fish with a seine.
From Old English seġne, from Proto-West Germanic *sagīna, from Latin sagēna, from Ancient Greek σαγήνη (sagḗnē, “dragnet”), of unknown origin.
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