flynet
nounEtymology From Middle English *flynet, from Old English flēohnet, flēohnett (“flynet”), equivalent to fly + net. Compare Middle Dutch vlieghennet (“flynet”).
1
A net to catch flies or used as a protection against flies, as in an open window to prevent their entrance.
- The Pope declares me guilty of treason; he is using a flynet to catch an eagle.1911, Mandell Creighton, A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome:
2
A fringe or net used to protect a horse from flies.
- A small polished wooden rocking-horse, of about 1830, in the American Museum at Bath, wears a fly-net over its back. Other small horses may have this idea carried out in brush strokes.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 76: