dilly net

English

Noun

dilly net (plural dilly nets)

  1. (Australia) A simple, collapsible trap consisting of a circular net stretched across metal or plastic hoops, used for catching crabs.
    Synonym: dilly
    • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 75:
      Dilly nets deposited, out we went into Deception Bay, threw the anchor in near a sandbank and got amongst the fish.
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