trammel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
    — [They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract.
  2. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
  3. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
    — 1633, The tuck carrieth a like fashion , save that it is narrower meshed , and ( therefore scarce lawful ) with a long bunt in the midst : the trammel differeth not much from the shape of this bunt, and serveth to such use as the wear and haking.
  4. A vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height.
  5. Braids or plaits of hair.
    — Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.
  6. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
  7. An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
  8. A beam compass.
动词 v.
  1. To entangle, as in a net.
    — the scarce-snatched hours Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: — Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
  2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle. transitive
    — In their vote, you would get something of some value, at least, however small; but in the other case, only the trammelled judgment of an individual, of no significance, be it which way it might.

词形变化

trammels plural trammels present,singular,third-person trammeling US,participle,present trammelling UK,participle,present trammeled US,participle,past trammeled US,past trammelled UK,participle,past trammelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
entrammel trammeler trammel of Archimedes trammel wheel untrammel

词源

词源 1
From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).
词源 2
From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).
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