Definitions for trammel-net

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trammel-net trammel net

Trammel-Net is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 387 anagrams from letters in trammel-net (-aeelmmnrtt).

Definitions for trammel-net

noun

1. 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.

Origin of trammel-net

First recorded in 1510-20

Examples for trammel-net

I have never really cared for muskrats since as a lad I caught twenty of them one night in a trammel net.

A trammel net may be used under the ice by cutting two holes through it at a convenient distance apart.

I get just such oddities any time I lift my trammel net, but they are thrown away as "trash."