"clap net" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1835, Edward Newman, The Grammar of Entomology, page 265:",
          "text": "The clap net is the grand weapon of the entomologist : it is a large piece of muslin, four feet long, and nearly three wide.",
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          "ref": "1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, II.21, Dedalus 2016, p. 158",
          "text": "One day the colonel, who was very keen on hunting, took me with him when he went out to catch partridges with a clap-net [translating Tyras], an invention which impressed me very much."
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        "A net for catching birds or insects, which can be drawn closed by pulling a string."
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          "net",
          "net"
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          "bird",
          "bird"
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          "insect",
          "insect"
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          "word": "clap-net"
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          "word": "clapnet"
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  "word": "clap net"
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