(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Warden Anita Trammell said she thought Lockett spoke.
(2) Sensitization results from handling nets (drag-nets and trammels) or, less frequently, fish trays.
(3) Normal-hearing (NH) children (N:35) aged 9-11 yrs in regular classrooms were given all 10 subtests of the Test of Auditory Comprehension (TAC) (Trammel, 1976).
(4) Enrolled in Harold Washington College, Trammell said he was convinced to support Emanuel based on his recent decision to offer free tuition in the city college system to Chicago public schools graduate with at least a 3.0 grade-point average.
(5) I thought he was a political hack but then he starting making these good policies,” Trammell said.
(6) Sixteen minutes after the execution began, Lockett said "Man" and warden Anita Trammell decreed the blinds be lowered.
(7) For Jordan Trammell, 28, who moved to Chicago from Tennessee in October, Emanuel was not the mayor he expected based on his reputation as brash and uncompromising.
(8) Another witness said Trammell asked “if they could bring him back to life” and he thought the physician “said no”, the document states.
(9) It frightens me that he is being trammelled at such a young age.
(10) The beige curtain separating the execution chamber from the viewing area was opened and the state prison warden, Anita Trammell, stood over 38-year-old Lockett.
(11) In November’s election for the House seat, Brat will face Democratic nominee Jack Trammell, also a professor at Randolph-Macon College on the outskirts of Richmond.
(12) Trammell asked the doctor if resuscitating Lockett was possible, according to the court filing.
(13) Sixteen minutes after the execution began, Lockett said "Man," and Trammell decreed the blinds be lowered.
Trommel
Definition:
(n.) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.