[See STOW-BOAT, and cf. STALL NET.] A kind of net used in fishing for sprats.
1863. Bury & Norwich Post, 1 Dec., 7/3. There had been stow-nets used ever since he could remember. The Boston fishermen were wonders for the stow-net.
1871. Echo, 15 Dec. The vessels engaged in the fishing are called stow-boats, and the nets used stow-nets.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 3. The gigantic funnel-shaped stow-net, by which thousands of tons of sprats are caught.
