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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tram•mel /ˈtræməl/USA pronunciation n., v., -meled, -mel•ing or (esp. Brit.) -melled, -mel•ling. n. [countable] - Usually, trammels. [plural] anything that hinders;
a restraint.
v. [~ + object] - to restrain or hold back.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tram•mel (tram′əl),USA pronunciation n., v., -meled, -mel•ing or (esp. Brit.) -melled, -mel•ling. n. - Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action;
restraint:the trammels of custom. - an instrument for drawing ellipses.
- Also called tram. a device used to align or adjust parts of a machine.
- See trammel net.
- a fowling net.
- a contrivance hung in a fireplace to support pots or kettles over the fire.
- a fetter or shackle, esp. one used in training a horse to amble.
v.t. - to involve or hold in trammels;
restrain. - to catch or entangle in or as in a net.
- Late Latin trēmaculum, equivalent. to Latin trē(s) three + macula mesh
- Middle French tramail, variant of tremail three-mesh net
- Middle English tramayle 1325–75
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged drag, hobble, curb, inhibition.
- 8.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hinder, impede, obstruct, encumber.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: trammel /ˈtræməl/ n - (often plural) a hindrance to free action or movement
- Also called: trammel net a fishing net in three sections, the two outer nets having a large mesh and the middle one a fine mesh
- rare a fowling net
- US a fetter or shackle, esp one used in teaching a horse to amble
- a device for drawing ellipses consisting of a flat sheet of metal, plastic, or wood having a cruciform slot in which run two pegs attached to a beam. The free end of the beam describes an ellipse
- (sometimes plural)
- a device set in a fireplace to support cooking pots
vb ( -els, -elling, -elled) ( US -els, -eling, -eled)(transitive)- to hinder or restrain
- to catch or ensnare
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French tramail three-mesh net, from Late Latin trēmaculum, from Latin trēs three + macula hole, mesh in a net |