Obs. In 5 tramel, -ale, -aly. [Cf. OF. tremuie, tremue, tremee (all 14th c. in Godef.), trameul, tremouille, tremuë (Cotgr.), mod.F. trémie = Pr. tremueia, Cat. tramuja, It. tramoggia, Sicil. trimoja:—L. trimodia, a three-peck measure: see Diez, Scheler. Some med.L. and Romanic forms are affected by L. trem-ĕre to tremble. In Eng. apparently confounded with TRAMMEL sb.1] The hopper of a mill.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 246/1. Hopur, of a mylle, or a tramale (S. tramel, a. 1485), taratantara, farricapsium. Ibid., 499/1. Tramaly, of a mylle, idem quod hopur; supra; et faricapsia.
