OXFORD 9000
📚 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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