Large seines and nets were used regularly to secure the fish on which the young birds were fed and fattened.
"Natural and Artificial Duck Culture"
James Rankin
Certainly it had not been used for many years except apparently by fishermen occasionally, and the rotten condition of the seines showed that even such visitors had long since ceased to use it.
"Tom Slade with the Boys Over There"
Percy K. Fitzhugh
As she rose and passed Philip, she wholly put aside her veil, and looked at him with a gaze entirely free from coquetry, but curious, searching, and perhaps admiring-the look that an artist may give to a picture that seines of more value than the place where he finds it would seem to indicate.
"Night and Morning, Volume 3"
Edward Bulwer Lytton