bow net

bow net (plural bow nets)

1. A trap for lobsters, consisting of a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.
2. A net for catching birds.
   • 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports:

     HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced

“bow net”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.