单词 | trammel |
释义 | trammel/ˈtram(ə)l![]() noun 1 (trammels) literary Restrictions or impediments to freedom of action: we will forge our own future, free from the trammels of materialism...
Synonyms restraint, constraint, curb, check, impediment, obstacle, barrier, handicap, bar, block, hindrance, encumbrance, disadvantage, drawback, snag, stumbling block; (trammels) shackles, fetters, bonds 2 (also trammel net) A three-layered dragnet, designed so that a fish entering through one of the large-meshed outer sections will push part of the finer-meshed central section through the large meshes on the further side, forming a pocket in which the fish is trapped.Researchers lifted a trammel net full of large Asian carp from Swan Lake, a backwater lake of the Illinois River, in 2001....
3An instrument consisting of a board with two grooves intersecting at right angles, in which the two ends of a beam compass can slide to draw an ellipse.There are miter clamps, levels, plumb bobs, oil cans, planes, trammels, and so on....
Early 18th century: so named because the motion of the beam is ‘restricted’ by the grooves 3.1A beam compass. 4US A hook in a fireplace for a kettle. verb (trammels, trammelling, trammelled; US trammels, trammeling, trammeled) [with object] Deprive of freedom of action: those less trammelled by convention than himself...
Synonyms restrict, restrain, constrain, hamper, confine, curb, check, hinder, handicap, obstruct, impede, interfere with, forestall, thwart, frustrate; hold back, retard, slow down, cramp, clog, straiten, hem in; hamstring, bridle, encumber, enmesh, ensnare informal stymie British informal throw a spanner in the works of North American informal throw a monkey wrench in the works of OriginLate Middle English (in sense 2 of the noun): from Old French tramail, from a medieval Latin variant of trimaculum, perhaps from Latin tri- 'three' + macula 'mesh'. Rhymes |
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