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Synonyms for trammel


Grammar : Verb
Spell : tram-uhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtræm əl

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Définition of trammel

Origin :
  • mid-14c. (implied in trammeller) "net to catch fish," from Middle French tramail, from Old French (early 13c.), from Late Latin tremaculum, perhaps meaning "a net made from three layers of meshes," from Latin tri- "three" + macula "a mesh" (see mail (2)). Italian tramaglio, Spanish trasmallo are French loan-words.
  • verb hamper
  • verb trap
Example sentences :
  • What need have we of these brutal proofs which trammel our liberty?
  • Extract from : « English Conferences of Ernest Renan » by Ernest Renan
  • Reason is confined within none of the partitions which trammel it in life.
  • Extract from : « The Book-lover » by James Baldwin
  • I shall not trammel you with any restrictions or annoy you with any advice.
  • Extract from : « The Deep Lake Mystery » by Carolyn Wells
  • The libraries have not killed sincerity; they have done no more than trammel it.
  • Extract from : « A Novelist on Novels » by W. L. George
  • The most correct method of drawing an ellipse is by means of an instrument termed a trammel, which is shown in Figure 83.
  • Extract from : « Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught » by Joshua Rose
  • A trammel was found in the solid substance of a tree in Onondaga.
  • Extract from : « Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers » by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • Free-Will and Providence do not trammel each other, but harmoniously co-operate to the same end.
  • Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider
  • The bar is set with the index at zero, and the trammel is set at the muzzle velocity used in the computation for the shot.
  • Extract from : « The Gunner's Examiner » by Harold E. Cloke
  • This veto power was a trammel, and an unnecessary restraint on the freedom of legislation.
  • Extract from : « History of the Constitutions of Iowa » by Benjamin F. Shambaugh
  • The National Assembly, sovereign and philosophic, soars above their errors, their trammel; and their example.
  • Extract from : « The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) » by Hippolyte A. Taine

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