Trammel

['træm(ə)l] or ['træml]

Definition

(noun.) a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble.

(noun.) an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace.

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Definition

(n.) A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

(n.) A net for confining a woman's hair.

(n.) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.

(n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.

(n.) An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A beam compass. See under Beam.

(v. t.) To entangle, as in a net; to catch.

(v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Impediment, fetter, shackle, clog, bond, chain.[2]. Pot-hook.

v. a. Shackle, hamper, clog, fetter, confine.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Restraint, shackles, fetters, impediment, clog, hindrance

ANT:Liberation, freedom, extrication, unconfinement, unrestraint, play

Editor: Maureen

Definition

n. a net used in fowling and fishing: shackles for making a horse amble: anything that confines.—v.t. to shackle: to confine:—pr.p. tramm′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. tramm′elled.—n. Tramm′eller.

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