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A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
Answer for the clue "A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) ", 8 letters:
trammels
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n. a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) [syn: shackle , bond , hamper , trammel ]
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n. (plural of trammel English)
Usage examples of trammels.
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.