From en.wiktionary.org:
[clapnet]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A net for catching bird s or insect s, which can be drawn closed by pulling a string.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1835 | author= [Edward Newman (entomologist)] | title=The Grammar of Entomology | page=265
|passage=The CLAP NET is the grand weapon of the entomologist : it is a large
piece of muslin, four feet long, and nearly three wide.}}
1. * 1999 , Mike Mitchell, translating [HJC von Grimmelshausen] , _Simplicissimus_ , II.21, Dedalus 2016, p. 158:
2. *: 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 [de] , an invention which impressed me very much.