Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
To entangle, as in a net; to catch.
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh
a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble
a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes"
a fishing net consisting of a fine net hung loosely between vertical walls of a coarser net so that fish passing through the coarse net carry some of the finer net through with them and are caught in the resulting pocket