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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trammel net¹

First recorded in 1510–20

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

Here the pools are swept with small meshed trammel nets of all the fish that they contain.

From Project Gutenberg