Usually means: Restrict freedom of movement, activity.
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  1. trammel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trammel: Merriam-Webster
  3. trammel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trammel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trammel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trammel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trammel, trammel: Wordnik
  8. Trammel, trammel: Wiktionary
  9. trammel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. trammel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. trammel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. trammel: Dictionary.com
  13. trammel (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Trammel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Trammel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. trammel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. trammel: Rhymezone
  18. Trammel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. trammel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. trammel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. trammel: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. trammel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. trammel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. trammel: Legal dictionary

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  1. trammel: Encyclopedia

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  1. trammel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See trammeled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
noun:  A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
noun:  A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
noun:  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.
noun:  Braids or plaits of hair.
noun:  A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
noun:  (engineering) 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.
noun:  A beam compass.
verb:  To entangle, as in a net.
verb:  (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
noun:  A surname.

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