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Meanings of trammel in English

Portuguese
cadeia
Catalan
cadenes
Spanish
grillete

A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

cadeia
Portuguese
conter
Catalan
limitar
Spanish
limitar

Place limits on (extent or access)

conter
Catalan
travar
Spanish
pescar

Catch in or as if in a trap.

travar

A fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh.

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Examples for "trammel net"
Examples for "trammel net"
1
I get just such oddities any time I lift my trammel net, but they are thrown away as "trash."
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
2
Here the pools are swept with small meshed trammel nets of all the fish that they contain.
Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
Usage of trammel in English
1
Who can trammel up consequences but the Lord of the Universe?
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
2
By good luck, Billy tells me, the trammel has made a good haul.
Sir John Constantine / Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abr...
3
Briefly thus: I have but learnt of the trammel in which I am taken.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series
4
I like to be up before all the trammel starts.
Harvest Home
5
How is she ever to know you, according to the rules which trammel society?
Ester Ried Yet Speaking
6
At once he saw the trammel spread for him.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
7
I won't trammel you with so great a burden.
Darkness and Daylight: A Novel
8
You can't trammel the creative mind." "Why not?" said Thomas.
I capture the castle
9
My great trammel has been the non-existence of any definitely stated alternative on my opponents' part.
The Meaning of Truth
10
Here the pools are swept with small meshed trammel nets of all the fish that they contain.
Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
11
But it may be still more completely hidden, as for instance in the common elliptic trammel, Fig.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
12
Or is the tendency rather to trammel and divert them by so much laborious and irrelevant interference?
Heart and Soul by Maveric Post
13
But sends no troops to trammel
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917
14
A husband would trammel them.
The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mothe...
15
That which is progress to-day, may it not one hundred years hence have become mere routine, and a downright trammel?
Monsieur de Camors — Volume 1
16
I have studied every pothook and trammel of his first literary performance, to see what rays of genius could be discovered.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
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Translations for trammel
Trammel through the time