_Depinges_ (No. 18. p. 277., and No. 20. p. 326.).--I have received
the following information upon this subject from Yarmouth. Herring
nets are usually made in four parts or widths,--one width, when they
are in actual use, being fastened above another. The whole is shot
overboard in very great lengths, and forms, as it were, a wall in
the sea, by which the boat rides as by an anchor. These widths are
technically called "_lints_" (Sax. lind?); the uppermost of them
(connected by short ropes with a row of corks) being also called the
"_hoddy_" (Sax. hod?), and the lowest, for an obvious reason, the
"_deepying_" or "_depynges_," and sometimes "_angles_."
At other parts of the coast than Yarmouth, it seems that the uppermost
width of net bears exclusively the name of _hoddy_, the second width
being called the first _lint_, the third width the second lint, and
the fourth the third lint, or, as before, "depynges."