—is the particular NET in use with those nocturnal depredators who exert their utmost endeavours to devastate every water in the neighbourhood where they reside. It is of sufficient length to extend from one side of any moderate pond, moat, or river, to the other; and having the bottom plentifully loaded with leads at equal distances, with the addition of assistants at each end to bring the two together, encloses of course all the fish within its draught.
DRAUGHT or Draft Horses
—are of two kinds; the one adapted to the light carriages and splendid trappings of the great; the other to the purposes of agriculture, and the commercial transactions of the Metropolis, where their numbers, their strength, and powerful execution, exceed every idea of the most fertile imagination. See Cart Horses.
DRAWING
—is a term used in FOX and STAG HUNTING, when drawing a covert to find either of the former, or an outlying deer; it being customary to say, "we draw for A FOX;" "we try for A HARE."
DRAW-NET
—is used for taking birds of different kinds, but more particularly applied to the net made use of with the SETTING DOG for taking PARTRIDGES, by which mode the whole COVEY are frequently secured. The old birds are liberated, and the young destined to the table. This is, however, considered so destructive and unfair a practice, that it is continued but by very few, and those principally consist of RUSTIC TYRANTS, or rigid Cynics, who wish to monopolize not only the SPORT and the GAME, but all the good things of this life.
DRAY
.—A squirrel's deposit for its young is so called; it is built in the triangular branches of a tree, and resembles the nest of a magpye.