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noun

Trammel n.

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

A net for confining a woman's hair.

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

Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle. "(They) disdain the trammels of any sordid contract."

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

(Mech.)

(a)

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.

(b)

A beam compass. See under Beam.

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Etymology of 'Trammel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trammel" Quotes from Famous Books

... having risen so high that in places the boys had to bend down. Then once more they were in the long, canal-like zigzag, and soon after in the dock, where they loyally helped the old man carry up and spread the trammel net to dry, and turned ...

— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn

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