Crossword clues for trammel
trammel
- Catch in a net
- Restrain
- The outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh
- An adjustable pothook set in a fireplace
- A fetter that is used to teach a horse to amble
- A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- A fishing net with three layers
- Horse shackle
- Fishing net
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
mid-14c., "net to catch fish" (implied in trammeller "one who fishes with a trammel net"), from Old French tramail "fine-gauged fishnet" (13c.), from Late Latin tremaculum, perhaps meaning "a net made from three layers of meshes," from Latin tri- "three" (see tri-) + macula "a mesh" (see mail (n.2)). Meaning "anything that hinders" is from 1650s, originally "a hobble for a horse" (c.1500). Italian tramaglio, Spanish trasmallo are French loan-words.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle. 2 A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle 3 A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey. 4 A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc. 5 A net for confining a woman's hair. 6 A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble. 7 (context engineering English) 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. 8 A beam compass vb. 1 To entangle, as in a net. 2 (context transitive English) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
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 freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) [syn: shackle, bond, hamper, trammels]
[also: tramels, tramelling, tramelled, trameling,
- trameled]
v. catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" [syn: trap, entrap, snare, ensnare]
place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, limit, bound, confine, throttle]
[also: tramels, tramelling, tramelled, trameling,
- trameled]
Wikipedia
Trammel or Trammels may refer to:
- Trammel (fishing net)
- Trammels, Texas, United States
- Trammel, a tool for restraining a horse's ambling
- Trammels or trammel points, metal points with clamping apparatus used to construct a beam compass
- Allen Trammel (born 1942), American football player
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.