[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


Phrases:

Origin:
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)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in trammel): from Old French tramail, from a medieval Latin variant of trimaculum, perhaps from Latin tri- ‘three’ + macula ‘mesh’