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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Caught; confined; shackled; hampered.
  • Having blazes or white marks on the fore foot and hind foot; of one side, as if marked by trammels: said of a horse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Man.) Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of trammel.

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  • n. (also tram-mel net) a set-net consisting of three layers of netting, 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.

    April 26, 2020

  • n. 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.

    Origin early 18th cent: so named because the motion of the beam is 'restricted' by the grooves.

    Special Usage a beam compass.

    April 26, 2020

  • n. a hook in a fireplace for a kettle.

    April 26, 2020

  • v. (-meled, -mel-ing; Brit -melled, -mel-ling) trans deprive of freedom of action: those less trammeled by convention than himself.

    Origin late Middle English (sense 2): from Old French tramail, from a medeival Latin variant of trimaculum, perhaps from Latin tri- 'three' + macula 'mesh.'

    April 26, 2020

  • "But her eyes were still sharp and fierce, the eyes of a hunting hawk, even if one trammeled in a mew.

    Widdershins (whyborn & Griffin) by Jordan L Hawk

    April 26, 2020