deep a Cp OED a 2 'having a (specified) dimension downward.' Signifying the number of meshes in one dimension of a net.
   T 43/8-64 If you were knittin' trap linnet you'd put up your linnet one hundred meshes deep. P 229-67 How many meeshes deep is your salmon net? 1979 TIZZARD 317 [I bought] a forty rand two and three-quarter mesh herring net. It cost me $34.00. The net was of Gold Medal Brand and was two hundred meshes deep.

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