Retiarius

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  • n. A type of gladiator, who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Roman antiquity, a gladiator who wore only a short tunic and carried a trident and a net.
    • Word Usage
    "With a movement unbelievably swift King was there ahead of him; and with another movement not so swift, but much more disconcerting, he threw his sheet as the retiarius used to throw a net in ancient Rome."
     
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