trammel
IPA: trˈæmʌɫ
noun
- 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 set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- A net for confining a woman's hair.
- A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- (engineering) 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.
- A surname.
verb
- To entangle, as in a net.
- (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
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Examples of "trammel" in Sentences
- Do you mean to prohibit the trammel, which is usually a treble and not a double net?
- The trees in the distance trammel the view in a way that is the very antithesis of prairie.
- But when it exercises that right, it must do so in a way that doesn't trammel the rights of those concerned.
- The most correct method of drawing an ellipse is by means of an instrument termed a trammel, which is shown in Figure 83.
- This would also help to keep our armed forces out of the clutches of the "European Union" as presently constituted which must trammel their independence if it is to completely destroy our sovereignty.
- At moderate speeds in moderate corners, the CC rolls like a capsizing ore ship, and yet the tighter suspension can't seem to rein in the 20-inch wheels' unsprung mass, which on rough roads will trammel and judder frantically.
- From all which it is, I think, manifest that the men who framed these documents, desirous above all things of cutting themselves and their people loose from every kind of trammel, still felt the necessity of enforcing religion — of making it, to a certain extent, a matter of State duty.
- From all which it is, I think, manifest that the men who framed these documents, desirous above all things of cutting themselves and their people loose from every kind of trammel, still felt the necessity of enforcing religion -- of making it, to a certain extent, a matter of State duty.
- In what seemed to indicate a potential showdown might be coming later at the plenary, with a standoff between LDCs, the African Group, and others, pitted against those seeking to trammel the Kyoto Protocol and ram through the Copenhagen Accord, Solón stated: We are here to send this message.
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