Also cleeching-. [f. prec. vb. + NET.] (See quot.)
1847–78. Halliwell, Cleaching-net, a hand-net, with a semi-circular hoop and transverse bar, used by fishermen on the banks of the Severn.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 125. Cleeching net … used chiefly in floods to take fish that have found their way into any ditch or backwater.
