trainel
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]trainel (plural trainels)
- (obsolete) A dragnet.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XVI.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
- Much use there is of it [cork] […] for flotes to trainels or drag~nets.
References
[edit]- “trainel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.