A net with small rockets attached, which is laid on the ground and then propelled upwards by the rockets so as to envelop a group of feeding birds or another animal, such as a deer.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Severn Wildfowl Trust Annual Reports.
Definition of rocket net in US English:
rocket net
noun
A net with small rockets attached, which is laid on the ground and then propelled upwards by the rockets so as to envelop a group of feeding birds or another animal, such as a deer.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Severn Wildfowl Trust Annual Reports.