Definitions
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- verb transitive To
free orrelease from obstacles or hindrances.
Etymologies
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un- + trammel
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Examples
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Passing by this strike, I really wish the laymen would strike and call the pulpit to an account and rouse it from its lethargy, and demand that it should untrammel itself and be free and equal to the age and demand.
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild
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Business we have got to untrammel, abolishing tariff favors, and railroad discrimination, and credit denials, and all forms of unjust handicaps against the little man.
The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Woodrow Wilson 1890
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