Trample vs Trammel - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between trample and trammel

is that trample is to walk heavily and destructively while trammel is to confine; to hamper; to shackle.

As verbs the difference between trample and trammel

is that trample is to crush something by walking on it while trammel is to entangle, as in a net.

As nouns the difference between trample and trammel

is that trample is the sound of heavy footsteps while trammel is whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.

trample

English

Verb

(trampl)

To crush something by walking on it.

to trample grass or flowers

* Bible, Matthew vii. 6

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

(by extension) To treat someone harshly.

To walk heavily and destructively.

* Charles Dickens

(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

(Cowper)

Noun

(en noun)

the sound of heavy footsteps

Anagrams

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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.