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noun
1.
Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
2.
an instrument for drawing ellipses.
3.
Also called tram. a device used to align or adjust parts of a machine.
5.
EXPANDa fowling net.
6.
a contrivance hung in a fireplace to support pots or kettles over the fire.
7.
COLLAPSEa fetter or shackle, especially one used in training a horse to amble.
verb (used with object)
8.
to involve or hold in trammels; restrain.
9.
to catch or entangle in or as in a net.
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Trammels
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Origin:
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
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
Related forms
tram·mel·er; especially British, tram·mel·ler, noun
un·tram·meled, adjective
un·tram·melled, adjective
Synonyms
1. drag, hobble, curb, inhibition. 8. hinder, impede, obstruct, encumber.
1. drag, hobble, curb, inhibition. 8. hinder, impede, obstruct, encumber.
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Word Origin & History
trammel
mid-14c. (implied in trammeller) "net to catch fish," from M.Fr. tramail, from O.Fr. (c.1220), from L.L. tremaculum, perhaps meaning "a net made from three layers of meshes," from L. tri- "three" + macula "a mesh" (see mail (2)). It. tramaglio, Sp. trasmallo are Fr. loan-words.
EXPANDThe verb is attested from 1530s, originally "to bind up (a corpse);" sense of "hinder, restrain" is from 1727.
COLLAPSE
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