clap net

Noun

 * 1) A net for catching birds or insects, which can be drawn closed by pulling a string.
 * 2) * 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating, Simplicissimus, II.21, Dedalus 2016, p. 158:
 * One day the colonel, who was very keen on hunting, took me with him when he went out to catch partridges with a clap-net, an invention which impressed me very much.
 * One day the colonel, who was very keen on hunting, took me with him when he went out to catch partridges with a clap-net, an invention which impressed me very much.