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netting
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They were sad victims of another of the Mary Rose’s innovations—extremely strong, tall netting that surrounded the main deck, used to prevent an enemy from boarding the flagship.
These fisheries rely on purse-seine nets, a method that captures schooling fish by encircling them with a large wall of netting.
Or Liverpool's Xabi Alonso netting at the second attempt against AC Milan in their dramatic comeback in the second half of the 2005 Champions League final.
Merino has three this term, also netting at Newcastle on 28 September, where Arsenal last conceded before a run of eight clean sheets to equal a club record set back in 1903.
The charity, which along with the Northumberland National Park Authority looks after the site by Hadrian's Wall, has added a protective cage of wire mesh netting to the fenced-off stump to protect it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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