英语词汇“trammel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

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单词	trammel
释义	tram·mel I. \ˈtraməl\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English tramayle, tramale, from Middle French tremail, from Late Latin tremaculum, from tres three + macula mesh, spot — more at three 1. : a net for catching birds or fishes: as a. : an anchored gill net b. : trammel net 2. : a shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble 3. : something impeding activity, progress, or freedom as if by a net or shackle : restraint, check — usually used in plural < the poet's imagination must be free and has progressively thrown off the trammels of respectability, tradition, and more recently the established conventions of communication by language — N.E.Nelson > < bound by the trammels of human nature — Robert Graves > < the masses … sought to build an America free of the trammels of the Old World — H.J.Laski > 4. : an adjustable pothook for a fireplace crane 5. trammels plural, obsolete : braids, plaitings, or tresses of a woman's hair 6. a. (1) : an instrument for drawing ellipses consisting of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other and a beam carrying two pins which slide in those grooves and also a describing pencil (2) : any of various mechanical devices for drawing ellipses : ellipsograph b. (1) : beam compass — usually used in plural and often used with pair < a pair of trammels > (2) : either of the sliding parts on the beam of a beam compass c. : any of various gages used for aligning or adjusting machine parts — called also tram II. transitive verb (trammeled or trammelled ; trammeled or trammelled ; trammeling or trammelling \-m(ə)liŋ\ ; trammels) 1. a. : to catch (as fish) in a trammel b. obsolete : to attach trammels to (a horse) : shackle 2. : to hold in or as if in a net : tie or fasten securely : enmesh < while suffering the almost irremediable homesickness of bereavement had now become trammeled in events — Ethel Wilson > — sometimes used with up < if the assassination could trammel up the consequence — Shakespeare > 3. : to impose restraints upon : prevent or impede the free play of exercise of : confine < writing about people whose speech and behavior were trammeled to a certain extent by the usages of polite society — Wolcott Gibbs > < their life was at once dangerously trammeled and dangerously free — John Buchan > < the classical models no longer trammel, but assist him to be more effectively himself — H.O.Taylor > < these observations, by trammeling his every act, annihilate his freedom — J.G.Frazer > Synonyms: see hamper
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