[f. TRAMMEL sb.1 + NET sb.1] = TRAMMEL sb.1 1. Also attrib.
1516. in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, III. 564.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 277 b. Caste in the tramell nette ones more [Inijce euerriculum iterato].
1552. Lyndesay, Monarche, 4771. In to thare Tramalt nett thay langit ane fysche.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn Trameau,… a tramell net.
1657. C. Beck, Univ. Charac., L vij b. A tramel net or drag.
1787. Best, 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; = TRAMEL sb.1 1 b.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., Country Life, 65. Thy witty wiles to draw, and get The larke into the trammell net.
1669. Worlidge, 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.
1882. Buckland, Notes Anim. Life, 221. They [larks] are taken by thousands on dull nights with trammel nets.
