noun
- a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water and catches fish by their gills when they try to swim through it
Usage: fishing
verb
- to fish using a gillnet
Usage: fishing
Examples
- The fishermen set their gillnets at dawn to catch salmon.
- Commercial fishing boats use large gillnets to harvest tuna.
- The gillnet was tangled with seaweed after the storm.
- Environmental groups oppose gillnets because they can trap dolphins.
- They gillnetted for herring along the coast.
- The crew spent hours repairing the damaged gillnet.
- Regulations limit the size of gillnets used in these waters.