trammel
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trammel¹
- /ˈtræməl/
Rhymes with -æməl
Where it 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”).
noun trammels
- Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle. [They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract.
- 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. 1633, The tuck carrieth a like fashion , save that it is narrower meshed , and ( therefore scarce lawful ) with a long bunt in the midst : the trammel differeth not much from the shape of this bunt, and serveth to such use as the wear and haking.
- 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. Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.
- 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.
verb trammels · trammeling · trammelling · trammeled · trammelled
- 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.
- 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.
Trammel²
proper noun Trammels
- A surname.
Translations
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noun something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
| Español | traba |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 桎梏 zhìgù |
| Deutsch | Behinderung, Hinderung, Fessel |
| Italiano | rete |
| Русский | поме́ха poméxa |
noun device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
| Español | llares |
|---|---|
| Français | crémaillère |
| Deutsch | Kesselhaken |
| Italiano | griglia, anello, piastra, riduzione, radiante |
| Русский | крючо́к krjučók |
verb to hamper
| Español | trabar |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | behindern, hemmen, hindern, bremsen |
| Русский | заде́рживать zadérživatʹ, препя́тствовать prepjátstvovatʹ, меша́ть mešátʹ, затрудня́ть zatrudnjátʹ |
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title = {trammel},
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