dragnet vs seine

dragnet

noun
  • A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. 

  • Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. 

verb
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

  • To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water. 

seine

noun
  • A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish. 

verb
  • To use a seine, to fish with a seine. 

How often have the words dragnet and seine occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )