Crossword-Solution: TRAMMEL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trammel | n. | A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey. |
| Trammel | n. | A net for confining a woman's hair. |
| Trammel | n. | A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble. |
| Trammel | n. | Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle. |
| Trammel | n. | An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire. |
| Trammel | n. | 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. |
| Trammel | n. | A beam compass. See under Beam. |
| Trammel | v. t. | To entangle, as in a net; to catch. |
| Trammel | v. t. | To confine; to hamper; to shackle. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “TRAMMEL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| hindrance to free action or movement | 1 answer |
| Three-tiered fishing net. | 1 answer |
| Three-layer fishnet | 1 answer |
| Three-layer fishing net | 1 answer |
| Net of three layers for catching birds or fish | 1 answer |
| MacBeth's "___ up the consequence" | 1 answer |
| Kind of fish net. | 1 answer |
| Impede or confine | 1 answer |
| Horse trainer's shackle | 1 answer |
| Horse shackle | 1 answer |
| Fowling net | 1 answer |
| Fishing net with three layers. | 1 answer |
| Fishing net of three layers. | 1 answer |
| Block the progress of | 1 answer |
| Block the freedom or progress of | 1 answer |
| Large fishing net | 3 answers |
| Fishing net | 7 answers |
| Catch in a net | 10 answers |
| IMPLEMENT for measuring | 11 answers |
| Hogtie | 14 answers |
| enmesh | 15 answers |
| Tie-up | 17 answers |
| Tie up | 23 answers |
| Shackle | 24 answers |
| Leash | 30 answers |
| Ensnare | 31 answers |
| Hobble | 33 answers |
| fetter | 47 answers |
| Net | 69 answers |
| Hinder | 71 answers |
| Restrain | 72 answers |
| Hindrance | 100 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TRAMMEL (5)
Douglass in that great gathering of the friends of freedom, at Pittsburgh, in 1852, where he towered among the highest, because, with abilities inferior to none, and moved more deeply than any, there was neither policy nor party to trammel the outpourings of his soul.
Oxenstiern long and strenuously resisted this limitation of his authority, which could not fail to trammel him in the execution of every enterprise requiring promptitude or secrecy, and at last succeeded, with difficulty, in obtaining so far a modification of it, that his management in affairs of war was to be uncontrolled.
The windy trammel of her dress, Her blown locks, took my soul in mesh; God’s breath they spake, with visibleness That stirred the raiment of her flesh: And sensible, as her blown were, Beyond the precincts of her form I felt the woman flow from her— A calm of intempestuous storm.
The whole class of similar phenomena of air pressure, which had been held in the trammel of long-established but false doctrines, was now reduced to one simple law, and the door to a solution of a host of unsolved problems thrown open.
The theory of checks and balances is admirable if the object be to trammel power, and to have as little power in the government as possible; but it is a theory which is born from passions engendered by the struggle against despotism or arbitrary power, not from a calm and philosophical appreciation of government itself.
Quotes with TRAMMEL (1)
Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice the attempt to prove, as no theories could ever satisfactorily prove without examples, that marriage and motherhood need never tame the mind, nor swamp and undermine ability and training, nor trammel and domesticise political perception and social judgement. Today, as never before, it was urgent for individual women to show that life was enriched, mentally and spiritually as wel…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1957–2018).