Terminology record for sein
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| Record No.: | 212/en/385 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2022-12-21 00:00:00 |
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| TERM | * Sein status: recommended
* sein net (noun) status: accepted | ||||||
| PART OF SPEECH | noun | ||||||
| PLURAL | Seins ; Sein nets ; | ||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Old English segne, of West Germanic origin, via Latin from Greek sagēnē; reinforced in Middle English by Old French saine. | ||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | ||||||
| DEFINITION |
net which is usually set from a boat, can be operated either from the shore (beach seines) or from the boat itself (e.g., Danish or Scottish seines).
The manner of capture is to surround an area of water with a very long net, with or without a bag at the centre. The net is usually operated by two ropes fixed to its ends, used both for hauling it in and for herding the fish. | ||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 222 Rev.1 | ||||||
