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Definition of Trammelling
1. trammel [v] - See also: trammel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trammelling
Literary usage of Trammelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"The following quotation from Nares, will be found applicable to our present
article, as well as to another in this Collection— The mode of trammelling a ..."
2. Transactions by Manchester Association of Engineers (1901)
"Then the loose head- stock spindle must be true with the fast headstock spindle,
and this could be tested by trammelling. The loose headstock spindle must ..."
3. The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary: Containing the Art of by Thomas Wallis (1759)
"... you may put on the whole tramel, with the broad, flat back-band, trammelling
both fides equally, and fo run him in your hand at the ..."
4. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)
"It seemed to him that now at last life had freed him from all trammelling delusions,
leaving him only the best thing in its gift—his boy. ..."
5. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"... attitude.3 The magical effect of knots in trammelling and obstructing human
activity was believed to be manifested at marriage not less than at birth. ..."
6. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (1877)
"At the time of its publication trigonometry in many of our colleges was restricted
to the simple cases of plane and spherical triangles, by the trammelling ..."
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