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Shackle vs Trammel - What's the difference?

shackle | trammel |

As nouns the difference between shackle and trammel

is that shackle is a restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger usually used in plural, to indicate a pair joined by a chain; a hobble while trammel is whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.

As verbs the difference between shackle and trammel

is that shackle is to restrain using ; to place in shackles while trammel is to entangle, as in a net.

shackle

English

(wikipedia shackle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger. Usually used in plural, to indicate a pair joined by a chain; a hobble.
  • A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.
  • (figuratively, usually in plural) A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
  • * South
    • His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles .
  • A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
  • * Dampier
    • Most of the men and women had all earrings made of gold, and gold shackles about their legs and arms.
  • A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
  • stubble
    • (Pegge)

    Hyponyms

    * handcuff / handcuffs * manacle / manacles * fetter

    Derived terms

    * harp shackle

    Verb

    (shackl)
  • To restrain using ; to place in shackles.
  • By extension, to render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of someone or something.
    • This law would effectively shackle its opposition.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 2 - 1 Man City , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Rooney, superbly shackled by City defender Vincent Kompany for so long as Ferguson surprisingly left Dimitar Berbatov on the bench, had previously cut a forlorn and frustrated figure but his natural instincts continue to serve him and United so well.}}

    Antonyms

    *(to restraint using shackles) unshackle, untie *(to inhibit the abilities of) free, liberate, unshackle

    Anagrams

    * ----

    trammel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
  • * (rfdate) (Jeffrey)
    • [They] disdain the trammels of any sordid contract.
  • *
  • 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.
    • (Carew)
  • 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.
  • * (Spenser)
  • 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

    • Verb

    (trammell) (UK ) (en-verb) (US )
  • To entangle, as in a net.
  • * 1880 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , lines 9-10
    • ''the scarce-snatched hours
    ''Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: —
    ''Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
  • To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
  • * 1948 , Winston Churchill,
    • Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.