Trammel vs Boundary - What's the difference?
trammel | boundary |
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
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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.
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A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
(engineering) 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
To entangle, as in a net.
* 1880 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , lines 9-10
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
* 1948 , Winston Churchill,
The dividing line or location between two areas.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
(cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
(cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (a four) or 6 (a six) runs respectively for the batting team.
(topology) (of a set) the set of points in the closure of a set , not belonging to the interior of that set.
As nouns the difference between trammel and boundary
is that trammel is whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle while boundary is the dividing line or location between two areas.As a verb trammel
is to entangle, as in a net.trammel
English
Noun
(en noun)- [They] disdain the trammels of any sordid contract.
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Verb
(trammell) (UK ) (en-verb) (US )- ''the scarce-snatched hours
- ''Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: —
- ''Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
- Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.