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Trammel   /trˈæməl/   Listen
noun
Trammel  n.  
1.
A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
2.
A net for confining a woman's hair.
3.
A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
4.
Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle. "(They) disdain the trammels of any sordid contract."
5.
An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
6.
(Mech.)
(a)
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.
(b)
A beam compass. See under Beam.


verb
Trammel  v. t.  (past & past part. trammeled or trammelled; pres. part. trammeling, or trammelling)  
1.
To entangle, as in a net; to catch. (R.)
2.
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.





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"Trammel" Quotes from Famous Books



... it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success: that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all; here, But here upon this bank and shoal of time We'd jump the life to ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris
... "that when you are out alone in the wild forest, holding in your hand the weapon which decides the question of life or death for any living creature over whom you may choose to exercise your jurisdiction, absolutely independent of every social trammel, every bond of conventionalism, you must feel that you are a predominant whole and not a ...
— The Associate Hermits • Frank R. Stockton
... kings And queens; thy Christmas revellings: Thy nut-brown mirth, thy russet wit, And no man pays too dear for it.— To these, thou hast thy times to go And trace the hare i' th' treacherous snow: Thy witty wiles to draw, and get The lark into the trammel net: Thou hast thy cockrood, and thy glade To take the precious pheasant made: Thy lime-twigs, snares, and pit-falls then To catch ...
— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick
... exclusively with her own interests, and of placing in the scales the repose of Europe entire: it was said that she abused Philip's good-nature, and that she ought not to have availed herself of her ascendancy over that conscientious prince save to release him from his promise, to free him from all trammel, and incline him towards the wishes ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... sets to itself. Now, I need not remind you how, for the execution of such a purpose, it is plain that something else than man's power is absolutely essential. It is only God who can alter my relation to His government. It is only God who can trammel up the inward consequences of my sins and prevent them from scourging me. It is only God who can bestow upon my death a new life, which shall grow up into righteousness and beauty, caught of, and kindred to, His own. But if this be the aim of the Gospel, then its ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren


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