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What is the noun for trammel?

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trammel
  1. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
  2. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
  3. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
  4. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
  5. A net for confining a woman's hair.
  6. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
  7. (engineering) 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.
  8. A beam compass
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “Voting should be freed from the trammel of all official interventions.”
      “There was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision.”
trammeler
  1. One who uses a trammel net.
  2. One who, or that which, trammels or restrains.
trammeller
  1. Alternative form of trammeler
trammellers
  1. plural of trammeller
trammelers
  1. plural of trammeler
trammels
  1. plural of trammel
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There are miter clamps, levels, plumb bobs, oil cans, planes, trammels, and so on.”
      “The most notable characteristic of Archimedes' mathematical work is its freedom from the trammels of traditional Greek mathematics.”
      “He longs for the realisation of Shiva amidst the trammels of the illusory cosmos.”
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