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Trammel

Definition: Trammel

Trammel

Noun

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

2. An adjustable pothook set in a fireplace.

3. A fetter that is used to teach a horse to amble.

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

Verb

1. Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes".

2. Place limits on; "restrict the use of this parking lot".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trammel" was first used: 1397. (references)


Specialty Definition: Trammel

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Bottom-set net which is made with three walls of netting, the two outer walls being of a larger mesh size than the loosely hung inner netting panel. The fish get entangled in the inner small meshed wall after passing through the outer wall. Source: European Union. (references)
 A set net suspended from a cork rope and anchored with stones at each end; it consists of three curtains of netting suspended from a common cork rope. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A board with two grooves intersecting at right angles, in which the two ends of a beam compass can slide and describe an ellipse b. See:beam compass c. A pivoted rod, used to keep brick in alignment in lining circularkilns. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Trammel

Synonyms: bond (n), hamper (n), shackle (n), trammel net (n), trammels (n), bound (v), confine (v), ensnare (v), entrap (v), limit (v), restrain (v), restrict (v), snare (v), throttle (v), trap (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Trammel

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Hindrance

Difficulty; insuperable; obstacle; estoppel; ill wind; head wind; (opposition); trammel, tether; (means of restraint); hold back, counterpoise.

Cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.

Prison

Bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples; vice, vise.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Trammel

English words defined with "trammel": CottrelEllipsograph, EntrammelTrammeled, Trammeler, Trammeling, Trammelled, Trammelling. (references)
Specialty definitions using "trammel": inner netSIDEROGRAPHER. (references)
Etymologies containing "trammel": Entrammel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Trammel

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in? (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Trammel

DomainTitle

Books

  • Collector's Edition Trammel and Marking Gauge : Woodworking Plan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • The Second Half of the Life of Bernard Trammel (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Trammel

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Trammel

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A wide variety of fish and shellfish species support a mostly small-scale fisher y, operating near to the coast. Over 40 types of gear are used in the Mediterran ean. Most common type is trawlgear for benthic species; coastal purse seiners for small pelagics; trammel and gillnets for inshore species; and purse seines, long surface gill nets, and longlines are used for large pelagic fish. Credit: Fisheries.

Littoral Fisheries: Coastal species are exploited by small-scale gear (gill nets , trammel nets, bottom longlines and traps). Top: Small scale gear boat. Acitr ezza (Sicily), Italy. Lower left: Landings of small-scale vessel. Gallipoli ( Gulf of Taranto), Italy. Lower right: Trammelnetters. Porto Cesareo (Gulf of Taranto), Italy. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Trammel

The following table summarizes the usage of "trammel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
TrammelLast name1,0009,077
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Trammel


1. Trammel, VA
Zip Code(s): 24289
Country: USA

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Expressions: Trammel

Expressions using "trammel": trammel net Trammel wheel. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trammel

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

trammel crow

148

trammel

63

crowe trammel

24

company crow trammel

13

crow residential trammel

11

bubba trammel

8

crow residential services trammel

7

trammel point

6

alan trammel

4

apartment crow trammel

3

crow properties trammel

3

trammel net

2

bit trammel

2

trammel va

2

jan trammel

2

co crow trammel

2
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Modern Translation: Trammel

Language Translations for "trammel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtrëngesë (compulsion, constraint, pinch, trammels), rrjetë e imët, pengojcë (chock, clog, hobble), pengoj (arrest, baffle, balk, baulk, block, clog, cross, cumber, delay, detain, embarrass, encumber, estop, foil, forbid, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hedge in, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, interfere, interfere with, interrupt, jam, keep away from, let, obstruct, occlude, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, resist, set back, shut in, stumble, traverse, trouble), kap me rrjetë (mesh, net). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كلاب لتعليق, ‏وقع في شرك (boob trap, catch, decoy, ensnare, lime, snare), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, stymie, tie, traverse), ‏إصطاد بشبكة (enmesh), ‏شرك (booby trap, catch, cobwebby, decoy, entanglement, gin, hook, let smb. into, mantrap, morass, net, paneling, pitfall, polytheism, snare, trap), ‏شبكة صيد (landing net, net, trawl). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

спъвам (beset, clog, cramp, embarrass, entangle, fetter, hinder, hobble, impede, interfere, preclude, prevent, prohibit, retard, set back, shackle, short circuit, snag, snub, tie, trig), спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trig, withhold), шублер за разчертаване, ограничавам (bound, chasten, circumscribe, constrain, contract, focalize, hem, immure, intern, limit, localise, localize, narrow, peg down, pinch, qualify, reduce, repress, restrict, specialize, straiten, tie down), букаи (clog, fetterlock, hobble, shackles), преча на (cross, fetter, handicap, impede, incommode, intercept, negative, obstruct, prevent, retard, shackle, weigh against), пергел за чертане на елипси. (various references)

   

Czech

  

omezit (abate, circumscribe, confine, constrict, curb, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, deflate, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, retrench, scale down, terminate), bránit (cumber, defend, hinder, impede, keep, obstruct, stymie). (various references)

   

Danish

  

troldgarn (trammel net), toggergarn (trammel net), togger (trammel net), toggegarn (trammel net), rundskaereapparat, grimegarn (trammel net), garntype,der består af tre lag.På ydersiderne net med store masker,i midten net med små masker.Der er så rigeligt med småmasket net,at fisken,når den går på nettet,kan trække en lomme af småmasket net med ud gennem det stormaskede net (trammel net), fiskegarn (trammel net). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vluwe (trammel net), vlouw (trammel net), schakel (link), rondsnijapparaat, ladderingnet (trammel net), fluwe (inner net, lint, trammel net), flouw (inner net, lint, trammel net). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یکجوردام یاتور, پابند (Anklet, Clog, Hobble, Jess, Shackle), محدودساختن , کملاف , تعدیل کردن (Adapt, Adjust, Coordinate, Moderate, Modify, Modulate), تعدیل (Adjustment, Regulation), الت ترسیم بیضی , بدام افتادن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

riimuverkko (trammel net), pyörösahauslaite, harppisaha. (various references)

   

French

  

tramail (trammel net), trémail (trammel net). (various references)

   

German

  

Trammelnetz (trammel net), Trammel/netz (trammel net), Spiegelnetz (trammel net), Rundschneidgerät, Ledderungsnetz (trammel net), Fesselnetz (trammel net), Dreiwandnetz (trammel net), Dreiwand/netz (trammel net), dreifaches Wandnetz (trammel net). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μανωμένο δίχτυ (trammel net), παρεμποδίζω (balk, block, encumber, hamper, hobble, inhibit, intercept), εμπόδιο (barrier, block, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, obtrusion, stumbling block, trig), εμποδίζω (bar, block, clog, cross, cumber, deter, embarrass, encumber, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent, stunt, stymie, thwart, trig), δεσμεύω (bind, commit, enchain, fetter, gyve, plight, shackle, tether, tie down), δίκτυο (net, network, snare, trawl). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעצור (balk, baulk, block, brake, check, curb, hindrance, inhibition, jam, obstacle, rein, restraint, stopper), מכמורת (dragnet, fishing net, net, seine, trawl), לכבול (chain, fetter, shackle, tie down). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gátol (hold, obstruct, to arrest, to baulk, to block, to clog, to clog up, to detain, to discourage, to embarrass, to hamper, to impede, to inhibit, to obstruct, to retard, to traverse), gát (bar, barrage, dam, Digue, dike, dyke, hindrance, hurdle, hurdles, impediment, lasher, obstacle, pen, perineum, rampart, seal, shackle, stumbling-block, traverse), akadályoz (antagonize, bar, baulk, counterwork, cumber, encumber, hamper, hold, impede, interfere, obstruct, prevent, to clog, to clog up, to cramp, to detain, to discourage, to embarrass, to encumber, to hamper, to hold up, to impede, to incapacitate, to inhibit, to keep from, to put back, to put off, to set back, to thwart, to tie, to traverse), akadály (balk, bar, barrier, blockage, check, cumber, difficulty, drag, drawback, handicap, hang fire, hindrance, hitch, hobble, hurdle, impediment, leap, let, lion in the path, lion in the way, malfunction, objection, obstacle, obstruction, retardation, ring fence, snag, stumbling block, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, throw back, traverse). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menghalang-halangi (balk, debar, vex), mengekang (bridle, curb, pull in the reins), kekang (bridle, reins), belenggu (gyvess, handcuff, manacle, shackle). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tramaglio (trammel net). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trammyl. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ammeltray

   

Portuguese

  

tresmalho (trammel net). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

voloc, reţine (arrest, bespeak, book, catch, confine, delay, detain, dock, engage, fix, ground, hinder, hold, hold in, impede, keep, keep back, keep in, laten, learn, memorize, nota bene, refrain, remember, reserve, restrain, retain, secure, stop, take by the button, withhold), plasã de pescuit (drift net, fishing net), piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, traverse, trigger), nãvod (drag-net, fishing net, mesh, netful, network, seine, trawl), elipsograf, compas eliptic, împiedica (arrest, back, balk, baulk, block, brake, check, circumvent, clog, delay, detain, deter, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, help, hinder, hitch, hobble, hold, hopple, impede, inhibit, intercept, lock, obstruct, prevent, put on the brakes, restrain, shackle, shut out, snag, stay, stop, withhold). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

трал (trawl), штангенциркуль (calipers), ловить сетью, помеха (clog, crab, disturber, drag, drawback, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, impediment, interference, interruption, jog, let, marplot, noise, obstacle, preclusion, retardation, retardment, rub, strays). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cuibhreach (a bond, bond, chain). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sputati (bind, cramp, fetter, hamper, hobble, hopple, tie), sprava za podešavanje mašinskih delova, sapeti (bind, hamshackle, tie), remen zatezač, prepreka (ado, balk, bar, barrage, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hang up, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, liability, obstacle, obstruction, set back, setback, snag, static, traverse), mreža (chain, mesh, meshes, net, netting, network, reticle, reticulation, reticule, screen, seine, web), kuka za vešanje kotlova, šestar za elipse. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trasmallo (flue), trabar (interlock, jam, lock), traba (clog, tether), red atrasmallada (trammel net), poner trabas, impedirse (encumber, obstruct, preclude), impedimento (deterrence, deterrent, disability, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, obstacle, prevention), compás de corte. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trollgarn (trammel net), rundskärningsapparat, inskränkning (confinement, contraction, derogation, limitation, reduction, restriction, stint), hindra (balk, bar, baulk, clog, constrain, contain, cramp, cross, cumber, curb, detain, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hamstring, hedge, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, keep back, obstruct, occlude, preclude, prevent, put back, short circuit, snag, stay, stymie, traverse), hinder (balk, bar, block, check, cumber, curb, disqualification, drag, embargo, embarrassment, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, gorge, hazard, hedge, hindrance, hitch, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, object, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, stymie), hämma (check, clog, cramp, depress, fetter, impede, inhibit, obstruct, retard, stanch, stunt, tie), grimgarn (trammel net), begränsning (circumscription, limitation, restriction). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tuzağa düşürmek (ambuscade, circumvent, decoy, enmesh, ensnare, entrap, gin, mesh, net, snare, springe, trap), güçleştirmek (complicate, make difficult), engellemek (balk, bar, baulk, block, circumvent, clamp the lid on smth., clog, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, cross, cumber, dam, dam up, defeat, embarrass, encumber, fetter, foil, gum up, hamper, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, keep down, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent from, put the lid on smth., resist, restrain, save, shut out, snag, stem, stymie, surety), engel (balk, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent, difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, retardation, rub, shackles, slashing, snag, stay, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie), elipsograf, bukağı, bir tür balık ağı (flue), ayak bağı (hindrance, impediment, tie, wedlock). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

невід (seine, sweep net), ловити неводом, перешкоджати (baffle, balk, bar, barrier in, baulk, block, check, clog, counteract, cumber, debar, discourage, forbid, handicap, impede, inhibit, militate, prevent, set back, tie up). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Trammel

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

tri-. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Trammel

Derivations

Words beginning with "trammel": trammeled, trammeling, trammelled, trammelling, trammels. (additional references)

Words containing "trammel": untrammeled. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Trammel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Frommel, Rammell, trame, tramel, Tramen, tramil, trammed, trammmel, tramnel, Trankell, Tremella, trimel, Trimnell, trummel, trummell. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Trammel"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "trammel" (pronounced tra"mul)
6t r a" m u ltramel.
4-a" m u lcamel, enamel, mammal.
3-m u labnormal, abysmal, animal, baptismal, caramel, decimal, dermal, dismal, endodermal, epidermal, formal, geothermal, Hamal, hydrothermal, infinitesimal, informal, isothermal, maximal, mesodermal, minimal, normal, optimal, paranormal, pommel, primal, proximal, pummel, thermal.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Trammel

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-m-r-t"

-1 letter: armlet, tramel.

-2 letters: alert, alter, armet, artel, lamer, later, lemma, mater, metal, ramet, ratel, realm, taler, tamer.

-3 letters: alme, earl, lame, late, lear, male, malm, malt, mare, marl, mart, mate, meal, meat, melt, merl, meta, rale, rate, real, ream, tael, tale, tame, tare, teal, team, tear, tela, term, tram.

-4 letters: ale, alt, are, arm.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-m-r-t"
 

+1 letter: trammels.

 

+2 letters: maelstrom, metalmark, trammeled.

 

+3 letters: dermatomal, immaterial, immaturely, maelstroms, metalmarks, millstream, multiarmed, trammeling, trammelled.

 

+4 letters: firmamental, immortalise, immortalize, materialism, maternalism, memorialist, millstreams, momentarily, recommittal, summersault, symmetrical, telegrammed, trammelling, untrammeled.

 

+5 letters: asymmetrical, hellgrammite, immoderately, immoralities, immortalised, immortalises, immortalized, immortalizer, immortalizes, maltreatment, materialisms, maternalisms, melodramatic, memorability, memorialists, mercantilism, metronomical, microclimate, millilambert, recommittals, summersaults, telegramming.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Trammel


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 6D 6D 65 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    .-    --    --    .    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01101101 01101101 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#109 &#109 &#101 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 006D 006D 0065 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54846779797178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Names: Frequency
9. Cities
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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