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trammel net
noun
- a three-layered fishing net, the middle layer of which is fine-meshed, the others coarse-meshed, so that fish attempting to pass through the net will become entangled in one or more of the meshes.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trammel net1
First recorded in 1510–20
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Example Sentences
A trammel net may be used under the ice by cutting two holes through it at a convenient distance apart.
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I have never really cared for muskrats since as a lad I caught twenty of them one night in a trammel net.
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I get just such oddities any time I lift my trammel net, but they are thrown away as "trash."
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