trammeled

Verb

trammel (third-person singular simple present trammels, present participle (US) trammeling or (UK) trammelling, simple past and past participle (US) trammeled or (UK) trammelled)

1. To entangle, as in a net.
   • the scarce-snatched hours
     Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: —
     Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, lines 9–10
2. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
   • In their vote, you would get something of some value, at least, however small; but in the other case, only the trammelled judgment of an individual, of no significance, be it which way it might.1854, Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts

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