trammel

1. 1.

   catch in or as if in a trap

   “The men trap foxes”

   Synonymstrapentrapsnareensnare

   Broadercapture

   Narrowergin

   hunt

2. 2.

   place limits on (extent or amount or access)

   “restrict the use of this parking lot”

   “limit the time you can spend with your friends”

   Synonymsrestrictlimitboundconfinethrottle

   Narrowerreducetiegatedraw the linemark offhamperstiffen

Other forms of trammel

plural

trammels·

past tense or participle

trameled

past tense or participle

tramelled

past tense or participle

tramels

present participle

trameling

present participle

tramelling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trammel

What does trammel mean?

trammel means "a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trammel?

trammel has 2 syllables: tram-mel. The stress falls on "tram". In IPA it is /ˈtɹæməl/.

What is another word for trammel?

Close synonyms include trammel net, shackle, bond, hamper, trap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trammel a common word?

trammel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.