English Dictionary

trammel

/ˈtræməl/

noun

Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle. / A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle

The bureaucratic red tape is a trammel on progress.

意味（1）

Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.

[They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract.

意味（2）

A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle

意味（3）

A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

The tuck carrieth a like fashion , save that it is narrower meshed , and ( therefore scarce lawful ) with a long bunt in the midst : the trammel differeth not much from the shape of this bunt, and serveth to such use as the wear and haking.

意味（4）

A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.

意味（5）

A net for confining a woman's hair.

Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye

In breaded tramels, that no looser heares

Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.

意味（6）

A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.

意味（7）

(engineering) 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.

意味（8）

A beam compass.