noun

• 1 poetic A coat of mail.

  In modern use only in translations of or with reference to Beowulf.

• 2Fishing
  A type of salmon net that is attached to the shore or bank. Now chiefly historical.

• 3A form of long seine net which is supported at the ends by separate boats, one of which moves in a circular path towards the other in order to trap the fish within the net, especially as formerly used in the Scottish fishing grounds to catch herring.

• 4Textiles
  A net ground with circular meshes or figures.