Noun : the trammels of custom. From Dictionary.com.
The most correct method of drawing an ellipse is by means of an instrument termed a trammel, which is shown in Figure 83. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
Do you mean to prohibit the trammel, which is usually a treble and not a double net?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Natural History and Agriculture] Reference
Band sawing machine, wide band saw blade, trammel points. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
The whole trammel thing was terribly annoying on OSI. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Online R.I.P.] Reference
In one instance, he created a mob of soldiers to trammel a baddie. From Wordnik.com. [I’m sure I’m just being a curmudgeon about this | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
The bricks are laid perpendicularly and centrally to the trammel (C). From Wordnik.com. [5. Design of biogas plants] Reference
Agesilaus, and in Hellas they had no other war on hand to trammel their movements. From Wordnik.com. [Hellenica] Reference
Let no young girl regard this watch-care as a trammel placed on her coveted liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
Even a lone fisherman can manually deploy a gill net or a trammel net from a small craft. From Wordnik.com. [2 Fishing Methods and Gear] Reference
The trees in the distance trammel the view in a way that is the very antithesis of prairie. From Wordnik.com. [The prairie reverie.] Reference
But it may be still more completely hidden, as for instance in the common elliptic trammel, Fig. 42. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference
A single-walled net (gill net) is used to gill fish, while a triple walled net (trammel) entangles them. From Wordnik.com. [2 Fishing Methods and Gear] Reference
This yoking of two geniuses was a trammel to both; but the suicide of Seymour dissolved the connection, and. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
But when it exercises that right, it must do so in a way that doesn't trammel the rights of those concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Trample the Olympic Ideals in Russia] Reference
That which is progress to-day, may it not one hundred years hence have become mere routine, and a downright trammel?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the fire nook, the andirons had been polished, and from the trammel hung a fine bulbous kettle with scented water roiling in it. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
The act must be swift but, even more importantly, the sequelae must be contained, as Macbeth hopes to trammel up the consequence, and catch. From Wordnik.com. [Dinomania] Reference
In the upper part - when the trammel is standing at a steeper angle than 45° - the first brick in each course must be held until the circle is complete. From Wordnik.com. [5. Design of biogas plants] Reference
It's government's job to restrain those profit-making corporations, to create limits and protections, so that they cannot trammel over what is not theirs. From Wordnik.com. [naomi klein in toronto last night: become shock resistant] Reference
There are various other appliances used for fish capture in different parts of the world, such as the purse-seine net, the trammel net, the otter-trawl net. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference
Organisations are only a means for intriguers and rogues to climb to power on the shoulders of their fellow-men; and at best only serve to trammel initiative and enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
They may speak of the subjection, the trammel, the. From Wordnik.com. [Hushed Up! A Mystery of London] Reference
Lightly all laws and ties trammel me, I am warn'd for all that. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon] Reference
People tend to pronounce it as a word that rhymes with "trammel.". From Wordnik.com. [Multichannel News: Business News] Reference
"Yes, Watson, thank Heaven! that trammel will be off in half an hour.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference
Consequence, deepest, 116. life is not a theory of, 753. scorn of, 623. trammel up the, 117. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
The coronation oath, they said, was never intended to trammel him in his legislative capacity. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
Romans; since I never read they made use of the trammel, or any other art, to pace their horses. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
Free-Will and Providence do not trammel each other, but harmoniously co-operate to the same end. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
My great trammel has been the non-existence of any definitely stated alternative on my opponents 'part. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
Assassination, absolutism tempered by, 807. could trammel up, if the, 117. has never changed history, 607. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
The National Assembly, sovereign and philosophic, soars above their errors, their trammel; and their example. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
He rose and walked to the edge of the veranda, and stretched himself as if to shake off some trammel of thought. From Wordnik.com. [A Tar-Heel Baron] Reference
This trammel, which hitherto had suggested only good cheer, was destined to have in coming years a terrible significance to the household. From Wordnik.com. [Taken Alive] Reference
The old story about Aristotle having one logic to trammel us, and Bacon another to set us free, -- always laughed at by those who really knew either. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
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