trammel

• But it was big enough for its purpose, which was to shelter from the rain and rock drippings a quantity of boat gear, mast, sails, ropes, and tackle generally, which leaned or hung snugly enough about the rock, in company with a small seine, a trammel-net, a spare grapnel or two, some lobster-pots, and buoys with corks and lines Aleck was not long about carrying mast, yard, and sail to the boat and shipping them. —  The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap
• But in her hours of social recreation, when she will meet and solve the vital problems of her own personal life, she needs a subtle something more_; the mother's wisdom to supply the deficiencies of her inexperience, the mother's love to enfold her in unspoken sympathy, the mother's approbation to rest upon her dutiful conduct like a benediction Let no young girl regard this watch-care as a trammel placed on her coveted liberty. —  Etiquette
• In work circular on plan, besides the level and plumb-rule, a gauge mould or template, or a ranging trammel--a rod working on a pivot at the centre of the curve, and in length equalling the radius--must be used for every course, as it is evident that the line and pins cannot be applied to this in the manner just described Bricks should not be merely laid_, but each should be placed frog upwards, and rubbed and pressed firmly down in such a manner as to secure absolute adhesion, and force the mortar into joints. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• Do you mean to prohibit the trammel, which is usually a treble and not a double net? —  Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
• If neither a series of Scotch nets nor a single trammel is to be used, by what sort of net do you propose to catch the Salmon Nineteenth.--You say the sluices which admit water to wheels or factories shall be kept closed from six o'clock on Saturday night to six o'clock on Monday morning. —  Essays in Natural History and Agriculture

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