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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.





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"Trammel" Quotes from Famous Books



... Friendship, Compassion, Parental and Filial affections, Benevolent impulses to mankind generally. But although the object of benevolence is the public good, and of self-love private good, yet the two ultimately coincide. [This questionable assertion must trammel any proof that the author can give of our possessing ...
— Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics • Alexander Bain
... however slight, They seized some airy trammel; They snatched my "Hogg" and "Fox" one night, ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... onward by means of the hitcher, the tide having risen so high that in places the boys had to bend down. Then once more they were in the long, canal-like zigzag, and soon after in the dock, where they loyally helped the old man carry up and spread the trammel net to dry, and ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... wires, alternate days, But sends no troops to trammel The foe that follows as I bump Across Judaea on the hump Of my ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 14, 1917 • Various


Words linked to "Trammel" :   encumber, curb, fishing net, gin, throttle, tighten, bound, catch, stiffen, irons, handlock, restrict, constrain, mark off, confine, handcuff, halter, limit, rein, fishnet, tighten up, manacle, cumber, clamp down, chains, bond, gate, fetter, capture, mark out, shackle, ensnare, crack down, restrain, cuff


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