Trammel

Quick meaning: Trammel is a noun meaning Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.

Meaning

Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.

More Meanings

1. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
2. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
3. Braids or plaits of hair.
4. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
5. A beam compass.
6. 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.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

[They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract.

The men who came here were able to throw off all the trammels of tradition and established doctrine.

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.

Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.

Word Forms

• trammels
• trammeling
• trammelling
• trammeled
• trammelled

Synonyms for trammel

Depending on context, synonyms include trap, restrain, snare, throttle, limit, ensnare.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entrap, ensnare, snare, trap, shackle, confine.

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