What does "retiary" mean?

Retiary: A retiarius.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Netlike. This work is in retiary, or hanging textures. Sir T. Browne.
  2. 3.Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.
  3. 4.Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. Coleridge.

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