Trammel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRAMMEL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to hinder, also TRAMEL, TRAMELL
• deprive of freedom of action
• To entangle, as in a net; to catch.
• To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
• catch in or as if in a trap
• place limits on (extent or access)
• hinder or restrain
NOUN:
• restrictions or impediments to freedom of action
• a three-layered dragnet, designed so that a fish entering through one of the large-meshed outer sections will push part of the finer-meshed central section through the large meshes on the further side, forming a pocket in which the fish is trapped.
• 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.
• a beam compass.
• a hook in a fireplace for a kettle.
• hindrance to free action or movement
• 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.
• a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh
• an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace
• a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble
• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

Words related to TRAMMEL

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How to use TRAMMEL in a sentence

• A trammel was found in the solid substance of a tree in Onondaga.
• Query, had this been a pot trammel of some ancient explorer? Onondaga is known to have been early visited.
• Affairs in Asia were prospering under the strong arm of Agesilaus, and in Hellas they had no other war on hand to trammel their movements.
• Polly Wales cooked some Indian meal mush for supper in an iron pot swinging from its trammel over the blazing logs, and cast scrutinizing glances at the little stranger.
• Here no rules trammel the best and therefore the most evanescent of our affections.
• I agreed with President Hayes in the matter of a reform in the civil service and in his desire to free the Executive power from the trammel of senatorial dictation.
• From that day Edred renounced all thought of the monastic life, feeling that such a life would but trammel his conscience and stultify his judgment.
• The little ties and tapes and conventions, which trammel more or less all but the very simplest lives, fell from her, snapped by the expansion of her love-exalted soul.
• By good luck, Billy tells me, the trammel has made a good haul.

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