Net cutter means various devices used to cut nets:
- Net cutter (fisheries patrol), used by some fisheries patrol vessels to cut intruding trawlers' net lines
- Net cutter (diver), a small handheld tool carried by scuba divers to extricate themselves if trapped in fishing net or fishing line.
- Net cutter (submarine), a device mounted on the bows of some naval submarines to cut through anti-submarine netting.
- Net cutter (torpedo), a device carried on the bows of some torpedoes to get through torpedo nets.
- Long-handled bolt cutters are sometimes used as net cutters by attack frogmen riding human torpedoes and similar to cut anti-submarine netting.
Famous quotes containing the word net:
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
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