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Trammel vs Tramel - What's the difference?

trammel | tramel |

As nouns the difference between trammel and tramel

is that trammel is whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle while tramel is an instrument, or device, sometimes of leather, more usually of rope, fitted to a horse's legs, to regulate his motions, and force him to amble.

As a verb trammel

is to entangle, as in a net.

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.

    tramel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instrument, or device, sometimes of leather, more usually of rope, fitted to a horse's legs, to regulate his motions, and force him to amble.
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