A form of drag-net having a very small mesh towards the end, used by zoologists for collecting small fishes and other marine animals.
1836. Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, I. 211. Fishing with a small but very useful net … called a keerdrag.
1853. P. H. Gosse, in Zoologist, II. 3993–4. I take it in considerable numbers in Weymouth Bay, by means of the net known as a ‘keer-drag,’ which rakes the bottom.
