Trammel(n.) A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
Trammel(n.) A net for confining a woman's hair.
Trammel(n.) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
Trammel(n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
Trammel(n.) An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
Trammel(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.
Trammel(n.) A beam compass. See under Beam.
Trammel(v. t.) To entangle, as in a net; to catch.
Trammel(v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
Trammeled(a.) Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse.
Trammeled(imp. & p. p.) of Trammel
Trammeler(n.) One who uses a trammel net.
Trammeler(n.) One who, or that which, trammels or restrains.
Trammeling(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trammel
Trammelled() of Trammel
Trammelling() of Trammel
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