Nettle

(nét'tl.) (Bot.) See URTICA. Nettings, (nettingz.) [From net.] (Naut.) On shipboard, a sort of a network or grating made of small ropes brought together with rope yarn or twine, and fixed on the quarters, tops, ., for various purposes to prevent the approach of boarders, to stow away sails | or hammocks, . [s. 638]