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trammel
English
Etymology
From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?træm?l/
- Rhymes: -æm?l
Noun
trammel (plural trammels)
- Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- 1825, Francis Jeffrey, "Campbell's Theodric", in The Edinburgh Review January 1825
- [They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract.
- 1825, Francis Jeffrey, "Campbell's Theodric", in The Edinburgh Review January 1825
- A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)
- A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- A net for confining a woman's hair.
- A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
- A beam compass.
Translations
Verb
trammel (third-person singular simple present trammels, present participle (UK) trammelling or (US) trammeling, simple past and past participle (UK) trammelled or (US) trammeled)
- To entangle, as in a net.
- 1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, lines 9-10:
- the scarce-snatched hours
- Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: —
- Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
- 1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, lines 9-10:
- (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
Translations
Anagrams
- Lammert
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trammed
English
Verb
trammed
- simple past tense and past participle of tram
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