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Trammel vs Hinder - What's the difference?

trammel | hinder |

In lang=en terms the difference between trammel and hinder

is that trammel is to confine; to hamper; to shackle while hinder is to keep back; to delay or impede; to prevent.

As nouns the difference between trammel and hinder

is that trammel is whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle while hinder is (slang|euphemistic) the buttocks.

As verbs the difference between trammel and hinder

is that trammel is to entangle, as in a net while hinder is to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.

As an adjective hinder is

of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.

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.

    hinder

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hindre (archaic)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hindrian, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.
  • A drought hinders the growth of plants.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back - their defence comprising four centre-halves - and the lack of width was hindering their progress.}}
  • * 1599 , act ii, scene 2 (act i; First Folio ed.):
  • Since God ?o graciou?ly hath brought to light
    This dangerous Trea?on, lurking in our way,
    To hinder our beginnings.
  • To keep back; to delay or impede; to prevent.
  • * 1591 , act ii, scene 7 (First Folio ed.):
  • Then let me goe, and hinder not my cour?e
  • * John Locke
  • What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right?
  • (obsolete) To cause harm.
  • Synonyms
    * (to delay or impede movement) bar, block, delay, hamper, impede, obstruct, restrain, stop * (to make a task difficult) delay, frustrate, hamper, impede, obstruct, prevent, thwart * See also
    Antonyms
    * (to delay or impede movement) aid, assist, help * (to make a task difficult) assist, expedite, facilitate, help
    Derived terms
    * hinderment * hinderer * hindrance * unhindered

    Etymology 2

    (hind)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.
  • the hinder end of a wagon
    the hinder parts of a horse
  • * 1990 - C. W. H. Havard (ed.), Black's Medical Dictionary , 36th edition, p 673
  • On a line dividing the front two-thirds from the hinder one-third, and set in the shape of a V, is a row of seven to twelve large flat-topped circumvallate papillae, ...
  • (hind)
  • Usage notes
    Most current uses of this adjective occur in anatomical contexts.
    Synonyms
    * (of or belonging to that part in the rear) back, hind, rear, posterior
    Antonyms
    * (of or belonging to that part in the rear) fore, front

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, euphemistic) The buttocks.
  • * 1997 , Richard Laliberte and Stephen C. George, The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning [http://books.google.com/books?id=2MOrDKokat8C], ISBN 0875963234, page 195:
  • Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder .