Clap Net

I knew a man in Pennsylvania, who caught and killed upwards of 500 dozens in a clap-net in one day, sweeping sometimes twenty dozens or more at a single haul. ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)

You have now a portable bag, or "clap-net," of over 5 ft. high by 2 ft. 6 in. or more wide. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

However, it may, perhaps, be necessary to describe how to make this machine or clap-net -- fit only for dealers or exterminators. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

The method of laying the clap-net is best described with the aid of a drawing (vide Fig. 5). ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

Tess, between the Amazons and the farmer like a bird caught in a clap-net, returned no answer, continuing to pull the straw. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Tess, between the Amazons and the farmer, like a bird caught in a clap-net, returned no answer, continuing to pull the straw. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

Philip took the green clap-net and went in chase of the beautiful fly which flitted on before him, now stopping, now going on again, and sipping flower after flower. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Here again in the street is the toy-shop with its open front and store of mimic drums and halberds for the martial little burghers; here are the fruiteress with her stall of grapes and melons, the rat-catcher with his string of trophies, the fowler and his clap-net, the furrier with his stock of skins. " ❋ Unknown (1903)

"In the Atlantic States, though they never appear in such unparalleled multitudes, they are sometimes very numerous; and great havoc is then made amongst them with the gun, the clap-net, and various other implements of destruction. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

Borough, thou mayst be), I will inform thee, is performed by holding a large clap-net before a lanthorn, and at the same time beating the bushes; for the birds, when they are disturbed from their places of rest, or roost, immediately make to the light, and so are inticed within the net. ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)