vbl. sb. [f. TRAMMEL v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRAMMEL in various senses. Also attrib. trammelling-net = TRAMMEL-NET.
1588. Lambarde, Eiren., IV. iv. 444. If any person … have taken … any Phesants or Partriches … by lowbelling or tramelling.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 133. To be obserued in the tramelling of Horses.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. xxii. (Roxb.), 277/1. A Long Nett, called a Tramelling Nett…. The ends are fixed on long poles.
1826. Hone, Every-Day Bk., I. 952. The larks … at Dunstable … are usually taken … with trammeling nets.
1866. Daily Tel., 5 Jan., 5/2. Trawling, shrimping, trammelling … methods deprecated by those who don’t happen to practise them.
