1. A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
   "The prisoner's ankles were bound with iron trammels";
   - shackle, bond, hamper
    
2. A restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble
   "The trainer used a trammel to help the young horse develop a smooth gait"
    
3. A fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh
   "Fishermen used a trammel net to catch a variety of fish species";
   - trammel net
    
4. An adjustable pothook set in a fireplace
   "She hung the kettle on the trammel over the fire to heat water for tea"

1. Place limits on (extent, amount or access)
   - restrict, limit, bound, confine, throttle
    
2. [literary] Be a hindrance or obstacle to
   - impede, hinder, entrammel [literary], fetter [literary]
    
3. (hunting) catch in or as if in a trap
   - trap, entrap, snare, ensnare

Derived forms: trammelled, trammeling, trammeled, trammelling, trammels

Type of: act, capture, catch, constraint, fishing net, fishnet, keep, move, pothook, prevent, restraint

Encyclopedia: Trammel, Kentucky