trammellertrammelern.
rare.
1. ? A fisherman, or a boat, fishing with a trammel.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using other types of net
trammeller1363
trim-tram man1746
halver1812
drift-netter1889
trek-netter1956
1363 Ministers Accts. Rye (P.R.O. 1028/15) Et de xxx. s. receptis de quadam custuma vocata Cristschar' proveniente de piscaria batellorum..de Matheo Samon pro schar' de tramelers iiii. s.
1363 Ministers Accts. Rye (P.R.O. 1028/15) De consimili custuma..de Roberto Bernhaud pro schars de tramelers xiii. s.
2. A fowler using a trammel-net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun] > using snare or net
trammeller1581
tunneller1611
limer1872
1581 Act 23 Eliz. c. 10 §6 This Act shall not..extend to Lowebellers, Tramellers or others, whiche shall unwillinglye happen to take any Partridges.
1618 M. Dalton Countrey Justice 285 To bind trannellers [sic] for larkes, that they shall destroy no partridges.
3. One who or that which trammels or restrains.
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1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in later Dicts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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