trammel

英 ['træm(ə)l] 美 ['træml]

解释

※ 提供单词"trammel"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

trammel 鱼网，束缚，限制

来自古法语 tramail,鱼网，特指比较精细的鱼网，来自拉丁语 tremaculum,鱼网，可能来自 tri-, 三，macula,网眼，网纱，词源同 mail.其原义可能为三层网纱制成的鱼网。引申词义束缚，限制。

trammel (n.): 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.

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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.

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!

3. To adjust or align ( mechanical parts ) with a trammel.: 用量规调整或校正 ( 机械部件 )