Trammel
WordNet

noun


(1)   A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
(2)   A restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble
(3)   An adjustable pothook set in a fireplace
(4)   A fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh

verb


(5)   Place limits on (extent or access)
"Restrict the use of this parking lot"
"Limit the time you can spend with your friends"
(6)   Catch in or as if in a trap
"The men trap foxes"
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Etymology


From , from .

Verb


(UK)
(US)
  1. To entangle, as in a net.
    • 1880 Dante Gabriel Rosetti, 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.
  2. To hamper.
 
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