tramel

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.

   “The back-band which is fit for no other use but to bear up the side ropes, should, if you tramel all four legs, be made of fine girth-web, and lined with cotton; but if you tramel but one side, then a common tape will serve, taking care that it carries the side ropes in an even line, without either rising or falling: for if it rises it shortens the side-rope, and if it falls there is danger of its entangling.”

3. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of trammel.

   “Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.”

name

1. A surname.