Definitions for Trammel

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Trammel tram·mel

Spelling: [tram-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtræm əl/

Trammel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in Trammel (aelmmrt).

Definitions for Trammel

noun

1. Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint:
2. an instrument for drawing ellipses.
3. Also called tram. a device used to align or adjust parts of a machine.
4. trammel net.
5. a fowling net.
6. a contrivance hung in a fireplace to support pots or kettles over the fire.
7. a fetter or shackle, especially one used in training a horse to amble.

verb (used with object)

1. to involve or hold in trammels; restrain.
2. to catch or entangle in or as in a net.

Origin of Trammel

1325-75; Middle English tramayle Middle French tramail, variant of tremail three-mesh net Late Latin trēmaculum, equivalent to Latin trē(s) three + macula mesh

Examples for Trammel

This veto power was a trammel, and an unnecessary restraint on the freedom of legislation.

The National Assembly, sovereign and philosophic, soars above their errors, their trammel; and their example.

What need have we of these brutal proofs which trammel our liberty?

The libraries have not killed sincerity; they have done no more than trammel it.

A trammel was found in the solid substance of a tree in Onondaga.

I shall not trammel you with any restrictions or annoy you with any advice.

The bar is set with the index at zero, and the trammel is set at the muzzle velocity used in the computation for the shot.

Free-Will and Providence do not trammel each other, but harmoniously co-operate to the same end.

The most correct method of drawing an ellipse is by means of an instrument termed a trammel, which is shown in Figure 83.

Reason is confined within none of the partitions which trammel it in life.