Day-net

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  1. 1
    A net for catching small birds. obsolete

    "why such setting up with corks, straitening with whalebones; why is it but, as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?"

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"why such setting up with corks, straitening with whalebones; why is it but, as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?"

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