What is the meaning of Trammel?

Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.

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 vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height.

Braids or plaits of hair.

A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.

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.

To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

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