trainel

Old French

trainel (plural trainels)

1. (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.

• “trainel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ratline, inter al., art line, -traline, Latiner, entrail, line art, trenail, larnite, reliant, latrine, retinal