Sekirov Dictionary

trammel

/ˈtræməl/

noun 8
verb 2
forms 5

noun8

•
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- [They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract. — 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.
A vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height.
A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
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.
•
Braids or plaits of hair.
- Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares. — 1590

verb2

•
To entangle, as in a net.
- the scarce-snatched hours Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: — Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars. — 1880
•
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
- In their vote, you would get something of some value, at least, however small; but in the other case, only the trammelled judgment of an individual, of no significance, be it which way it might. — 1854

forms

trammeled · trammelled · trammeling · trammelling · trammels

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