trammel.
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
Meaning & usage
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
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.
Braids or plaits of hair.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).
To entangle, as in a net.
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).
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