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Trammel (disambiguation)
Trammel
·noun A net for confining a woman's hair.
II. Trammel ·noun A beam compass. ·see under Beam.
III. Trammel ·noun A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
IV. Trammel ·vt To entangle, as in a net; to Catch.
V. Trammel ·noun Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
VI. Trammel ·noun A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
VII. Trammel ·noun An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
IX. Trammel ·noun 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.
trammel
I. n.
1.
Net.
2.
Impediment, fetter, shackle, clog, bond, chain, restraint, hindrance.
3.
Pot-hook.
II. v. a.
Shackle, hamper, clog, fetter, confine, restrain, hinder, cramp, cumber, tie, curb, restrict.
trammel
['tram(?)l]
¦ noun
1. (trammels) literary restrictions or impediments to freedom of action.
2. (also trammel net) a three-layered net, designed so that a pocket forms when fish attempt to swim through, thus trapping them.
3. an instrument consisting of a board with two grooves intersecting at right angles, in which the two ends of a beam compass can slide to draw an ellipse.
4. US a hook in a fireplace for a kettle.
¦ verb (trammels, trammelling, trammelled; US trammels, trammeling, trammeled) constrain or impede.
Origin
ME: from OFr. tramail, from a med. L. var. of trimaculum, perh. from L. tri- 'three' + macula 'mesh'.
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Trammel
Trammel or Trammelsor Trammell may refer to:
Examples of use of Trammel
1. Paul were expected to stay below freezing until sometime Tuesday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Karen Trammel.
2. Two–time Olympic silver medalist Terrence Trammel won the 110 hurdles in 13.44, 0.06 ahead of Ron Bramlett, with Igor Peremota finishing third. «
3. "Some is shredded and then goes through the trammel – conveyor belts and grids which let the smaller pieces of waste fall through.
4. Less so in cities like Dallas, said Art Lomenick, managing director for the Trammel Crow Company, a Dallas real estate brokerage firm.
5. The outcome would provide salutary lessons for executives worldwide about how to handle regulators who seek to trammel their business ambitions in the name of the public interest.