- a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
- an instrument for drawing ellipses.
- a device used to align or adjust parts of a machine.
- trammel net.
- a fowling net.
- a contrivance hung in a fireplace to support pots or kettles over the fire.
- a fetter or shackle, especially one used in training a horse to amble.
- to involve or hold in trammels; restrain.
- to catch or entangle in or as in a net.
- a hindrance to free action or movement
- a fishing net in three sections, the two outer nets having a large mesh and the middle one a fine mesh
- a fowling net
- a fetter or shackle, esp one used in teaching a horse to amble
- a device for drawing ellipses consisting of a flat sheet of metal, plastic, or wood having a cruciform slot in which run two pegs attached to a beam. The free end of the beam describes an ellipse
- (sometimes plural) another name for beam compass
- a gauge for setting up machines correctly
- a device set in a fireplace to support cooking pots
- to hinder or restrain
- to catch or ensnare
- to produce an accurate setting of (a machine adjustment), as with a trammel
