netting
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netting¹
- /ˈnɛtɪŋ/
Rhymes with -ɛtɪŋ
noun nettings
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Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]
Similar: mesh
netting²
Where it comes from
From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan.
Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.
noun
- Urine. Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe.
netting³
- /ˈnɛtɪŋ/
Rhymes with -ɛtɪŋ
Where it comes from
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
verb
- present participle and gerund of net
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: gauze, veiling, fyke, filet, tenderloin, fillet, mesh, wisp, trickle, camouflage, clearinghouse, slaughtering, backstop, clearing, deduction, offsetting
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title = {netting},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/netting},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
