Definition:
n. large fishing net made to hang vertically in the water by weights at the lower edge and floats at the top
Example:
Megan Peters, a trooper's spokeswoman, told the Juneau Empire the party was in possession of 148 sockeye salmon taken with a beach seine net.
Sentence in Classic:
A thing which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal to the Pont Louis XV.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextA heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on its way, like him, to the right bank.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
ContextThanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of the Seine.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
ContextIt was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor Hugo
ContextPeople are found every day in the Seine, having thrown themselves in, or having been drowned from not knowing how to swim.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextIn the Rue de Seine he met Planchet, who had stopped before the house of a pastry cook, and was contemplating with ecstasy a cake of the most appetizing appearance.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS By Alexandre Dumas
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