Definitions for "SEINE"
Keywords:  sinker, ashore, hang, fish, floats
A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones. The devil casting a seine of lace, (With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated. All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. Baruch de Loppis
A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.
A large weighted fishing net. A seiner is a boat that uses a seine net.
a French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel
a river in northern France (north of the Loire) the flows west into the Atlantic Ocean; Paris is located on the Seine.
Seine was a département of France encompassing Paris and its immediate suburbs. Its préfecture (capital) was Paris and its official number was 75. The Seine département was abolished in 1968.