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trammel

noun verb

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

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Word Facts

Word length
7
Starts with
T
Ends with
L
Contains
RAMME
Scrabble score
11
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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Pronunciation

/ˈtræməl/

Meaning

Definitions

noun

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

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

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

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

  5. A net for confining a woman's hair.

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

  7. 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.

  8. A beam compass.

verb

  1. To entangle, as in a net.

  2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

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