nets
/nɛts/ noun A2- A training session before playing a cricket match for both bowlers and batsmen or even backups. · He hit the nets seven hours before the cricket match.
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SOME FISHERMEN were out trawling their nets.
When they had dragged the nets to the shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and stones, and the men were beyond measure cast down so much at the disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had formed such very different expectations.
A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore.
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
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