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trammels
We have found lemma(root) word of trammels : trammel.
Definitions
[ˈtraml], (Noun)
Definitions:
- restrictions or impediments to freedom of action
(e.g: we will forge our own future, free from the trammels of materialism)
- a three-layered dragnet, designed so that a fish entering through one of the large-meshed outer sections will push part of the finer-meshed central section through the large meshes on the further side, forming a pocket in which the fish is trapped
- an instrument consisting of a board with two grooves intersecting at right angles, in which the two ends of a beam compass can slide to draw an ellipse
- a hook in a fireplace for a kettle
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Origin
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late Middle English (in trammel): from Old French tramail, from a medieval Latin variant of trimaculum, perhaps from Latin tri- ‘three’ + macula ‘mesh’
[ˈtraml], (Verb)
Definitions:
- deprive of freedom of action
(e.g: we have no wish to be trammelled by convention)
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Origin
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late Middle English (in trammel): from Old French tramail, from a medieval Latin variant of trimaculum, perhaps from Latin tri- ‘three’ + macula ‘mesh’
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