Meaning of TRAMMEL in English

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Meaning of TRAMMEL in English

• 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.
• An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
• 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.
• A beam compass. See under Beam.
• To entangle, as in a net; to catch.
• To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

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