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jmdict 2736280 Active (id: 1108781)
網玉
あみだま
1. [n]
▶ hand net (for fishing)



History:
2. A 2012-08-29 04:04:09  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Koj has another meaning altogether.
1. A* 2012-08-19 08:23:08  Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijr
Google images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_float
  Comments:
Heard used to refer to a metal net ladle at a restaurant (scooping food out of a soup), but seems overwhelmingly used instead to refer to hand nets.
May be used to refer to glass floats with a net around them – some image hits, but I think that’s just the two characters separately.

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