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trammel
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But of course they were only the symptoms: her self was troubled and trammelled.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh [syn: trammel net ] an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble a restraint that confines or restricts ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ellipsograph \El*lip"so*graph\, n. [Ellipse + graph: cf. F. ellipsographe.] An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, originally "to bind up (a corpse);" sense of "hinder, restrain" is from 1727, from trammel (n.), a figurative use from the literal sense "bind (a horse's legs) with a trammel" (c.1600). Related: Trammeled ; trammeling .
Usage examples of trammel.
Sergeant Trammel could call us what he wanted - and he did - but I suspected he felt something other than the professional disgust he communicated to us.
Sergeant Trammel came out, saw me sitting bolt upright, hands pressed to my knees.
Thy witty wiles to draw, and get The lark into the trammel net: Thou hast thy cockrood, and thy glade To take the precious pheasant made: Thy lime-twigs, snares, and pit-falls then To catch the pilfering birds, not men.
I never read they made use of the trammel, or any other art, to pace their horses.
Slipped from the trammels of the world, surrounded by a bubble of noise and cloven slippery air, mundane reality fallen away, they were as eagles.
This initialing of routing envelopes is just another bit of the bureaucratic trash that trammels the ever-reorganizing department.
But the worst of foolish laws is, that when the insurgent spirit casts them off, it is but too ready to cast away with them the genial self-restraint which these fretting trammels have smothered beneath them.
For a whole constellation of impalpable reasons, he had dreaded getting involved in a business that was trammeled with personalities and passions.
We are merely trammelled by the ordinary decent conventions of civilised society.
These spells hitting him now must be linked, so that breaking or trammeling one awakens the next!
How to entangle, trammel up and snare Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?
Our euphuists may pass away like those of the Elizabethan era, or, like the best of them, live in spite of faults with which they were gratuitously trammelled.
The happiness of futurity lies in the ecstasy of the soul in feeling freed from the trammels of matter, and unhappiness is the doom of a soul which was full of remorse at the moment it left the body.
Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
But the worst of foolish laws is, that when the insurgent spirit casts them off, it is but too ready to cast away with them the genial self-restraint which these fretting trammels have smothered beneath them.