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trammel
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 7
- Starts with
- T
- Ends with
- L
- Contains
- RAMME
- Scrabble score
- 11
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
Meaning
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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
A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
A net for confining a woman's hair.
A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
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.
verb
To entangle, as in a net.
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
