OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27636

trammel

/ˈtræməl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
traba
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
The men who came here were able to throw off all the trammels of tradition and established doctrine.
[They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract.
llares
A vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 27637

trammel

/ˈtræməl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
trabar
To entangle, as in a net.
the scarce-snatched hours Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: — Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
trabar
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
In their vote, you would get something of some value, at least, however small; but in the other case, only the trammelled judgment of an individual, of no significance, be it which…
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.
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