trammel-netn.
a. = trammel n.1 1. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > long narrow net
trammel1363
trammel-net1516
sleeve-net1611
trammelling-net1688
1516 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) (2011) III. 564.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 277v Caste in the tramell nette ones more [L. Inijce everriculum iterato].
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 4771 in Wks. (1931) I In to thare Tramalt nett thay fangit ane fysche.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vn Trameau,..a tramell net.
1657 C. Beck Universal Char. sig. L7v A tramel net or drag.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. 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.
1884 Daily News 25 Dec. 3/6 A resolution prohibiting trammel-net fishing for salmon.
b. A fowler's net; = trammel n.1 1b.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > net
plover net1404
tunnelc1440
setter1526
trammel1530
bird net1533
day net1576
road net1581
sparrow-net1621
shaw-net1648
trammel-net1648
spreadnet1661
pocket-hay1704
bramble-net1706
clap-net1708
tunnel-net1721
funnel-net1774
bow-net1875
flight net1889
house trap1903
pouting-net1905
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S8 Thy witty wiles to draw, and get The Larke into the Trammell net.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 252.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 235 The larker..makes use of a trammel net twenty-seven or twenty-eight feet long and five broad.
1882 F. T. Buckland Notes & Jottings 221 They [larks] are taken by thousands on dull nights with trammel nets.
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