English Explanatory Dictionary

tramel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A net over a river to catch fish.
  2. An instrument or device, sometimes of leather, more usually of rope, fitted to a horse's legs to regulate his motions and force him to amble.
  3. Obsolete spelling of trammel.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

tramel tramels tramell

Etymology

From French tramail (“net for catching fishes”), from Medieval Latin tremaculum.

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