Trammel

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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