Noah Webster
Trammel
TRAM'MEL, noun
1. A kind of long net for catching birds or fishes.
The trammel differs not much from the shape of the bunt.
2. A kind of shackles used for regulating the motions of a horse, and making him amble.
3. An iron hook, of various forms and sizes, used for hanging kettles and other vessels over the fire.
4. Trammels, in mechanics, a joiner's instrument for drawing ovals upon boards. One part consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles; the other is a beam carrying two pins which slide in those grooves, and also the describing pencil.
TRAM'MEL, verb transitive
1. To catch; to intercept.
2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle.