A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
Place limits on (extent or access)
Catch in or as if in a trap.
A fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh.
1 Who can trammel up consequences but the Lord of the Universe?
2 By good luck, Billy tells me, the trammel has made a good haul.
3 Briefly thus: I have but learnt of the trammel in which I am taken.
4 I like to be up before all the trammel starts.
5 How is she ever to know you, according to the rules which trammel society?
6 At once he saw the trammel spread for him.
7 I won't trammel you with so great a burden.
8 You can't trammel the creative mind." "Why not?" said Thomas.
9 My great trammel has been the non-existence of any definitely stated alternative on my opponents' part.
10 Here the pools are swept with small meshed trammel nets of all the fish that they contain.
11 But it may be still more completely hidden, as for instance in the common elliptic trammel , Fig.
12 Or is the tendency rather to trammel and divert them by so much laborious and irrelevant interference?
13 But sends no troops to trammel
14 A husband would trammel them.
15 That which is progress to-day, may it not one hundred years hence have become mere routine, and a downright trammel ?
16 I have studied every pothook and trammel of his first literary performance, to see what rays of genius could be discovered.
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