Definitions for trammels

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trammels tram·mel

Spelling: [tram-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtræm əl/

Trammels is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 372 anagrams from letters in trammels (aelmmrst).

Definitions for trammels

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 trammels

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 trammels

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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