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Trammel   /trˈæməl/   Listen
Trammel

verb
(past & past part. trammeled or trammelled; pres. part. trammeling, or trammelling)
1.
Catch in or as if in a trap.  Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trap.
2.
Place limits on (extent or access).  Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle.  "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"






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"Trammel" Quotes from Famous Books



... ay, it must be so." He answer'd, bending to her open eyes, Where he was mirror'd small in paradise, "My silver planet, both of eve and morn! Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn, While I am striving how to fill my heart 50 With deeper crimson, and a double smart? How to entangle, trammel up and snare Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose? Ay, a sweet kiss—you see your mighty woes. My thoughts! shall I unveil them? Listen then! What mortal hath a prize, that other men May be confounded and abash'd withal, But lets it ...
— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats



Words linked to "Trammel" :   moderate, chains, tighten up, draw the line, restraint, gin, hobble, baffle, fishing net, encumber, rein, crack down, inhibit, draw a line, capture, harness, mark off, irons, reduce, fishnet, tie, gate, check, cuff, control, handlock, hunting, constraint, halter, cumber, strangle, stiffen, clamp down, contain, curb, hold in, manacle, catch, constrain, fetter, tighten, cramp, handcuff, hold, hunt, mark out, rule, ball and chain, pothook, regulate



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