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ˈtrammel-net
[f. trammel n.1 + net n.1]
= trammel n.1 1. Also attrib.
1516in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 564. 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 277 b, Caste in the tramell nette ones more [Inijce everriculum iterato]. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 4771 In to thare Tramalt nett thay fangit ane fysche. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn Trameau,..a tramell net. 1657C. Beck Univ. Charac. L vij b, A tramel net or drag. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 63 They set trammel-nets baited, and leave them for whole days and nights, into which the fish enter of their own accord. 1884Daily News 25 Dec. 3/6 A resolution prohibiting trammel-net fishing for salmon.
b. A fowler's net; = trammel n.1 1 b.
1648Herrick Hesper., Country Life 65 Thy witty wiles to draw, and get The larke into the trammell net. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 252. 1768 Pennant Zool. II. 235 The larker..makes use of a trammel net twenty-seven or twenty-eight feet long and five broad. 1882Buckland Notes Anim. Life 221 They [larks] are taken by thousands on dull nights with trammel nets. |