noun / verb
trammel
TRAM-ul/trˈæmʌl/
A layered fishing net that entangles its catch.
A fish tangles in the fine inner mesh of the trammel.
Etymology
A tramail was a net that caught and confined fish. The English word also came to mean a hobble for a horse, then anything that restricts freedom or impedes action.
More examples
- The crew lowers a trammel into the shallow water.
- She carefully frees each fish from the trammel.
- These trammels have a fine mesh between two coarser layers.
Forms
trammel · trammels · trammeled · trammeling