mid-14c., "net to catch fish" (implied in trammeller "one who fishes with a trammel net"), from Old French tramail "fine-gauged fishnet" (13c.), from Late Latin tremaculum, perhaps meaning "a net made from three layers of meshes," from Latin tri- "three" (see tri-) + macula "a mesh" (see mail (n.2)). Meaning "anything that hinders" is from 1650s, originally "a hobble for a horse" (c. 1500). Italian tramaglio, Spanish trasmallo are French loan-words.
trammel (v.)
1530s, originally "to bind up (a corpse);" sense of "hinder, restrain" is from 1727, from trammel (n.), a figurative use from the literal sense "bind (a horse's legs) with a trammel" (c. 1600). Related: Trammeled; trammeling.
实用例句
1. No longer trammel by his responsibility as chairman, he can say what he wish.
他不当董事长就不受职务约束了, 想说什么就说什么.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Lori Trammel skanked her way through the entire football team!
罗莉·泰墨在橄榄球队混不下去了!
来自电影对白
3. To adjust or align ( mechanical parts ) with a trammel.
