trammel
Freedom's binding obstacle
A trammel is something that restricts or impedes movement or freedom—chains, shackles, or figurative constraints: the trammels of convention, free from the trammels of bureaucracy.
The verb means to restrict or entangle: trammeled by outdated regulations.
Historically, a trammel was also a fishing net or a device for drawing ellipses, but these uses are now rare.
The word appears most often in its negative form: untrammeled freedom, untrammeled wilderness.
Metal limb restraint
- fetterAnkle chain for prisoners
- constraintLimiting condition or rule
- hindranceBarrier to progress
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
obstacle · encumbrance · restriction · barrier · inhibition · handicap · check · burden
Final amount remaining
- meshInterlocking open weave
- gillnetMesh that snares by gills
- seineVertical hanging fish net
- dragnetUnderwater haul net
entanglement · trawl · snare · catch · bycatch · trap · haul · drift net
Device showing cardinal directions
Absence of unjust constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- independenceFreedom from external control
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- liberationRelease from constraint
unfettered · unrestrained · unshackled · unbound · release · free · unrestricted · unconstrained
shackle
Metal limb restraint
- fetterAnkle chain for prisoners
- constraintLimiting condition or rule
- hindranceBarrier to progress
impediment · obstacle · encumbrance · restriction · barrier · inhibition · handicap · check · burden · curb
net
Final amount remaining
dragnet · entanglement · trawl · snare · catch · bycatch · trap · haul · drift net · weir
compass
Device showing cardinal directions
- draftingCreating technical blueprints
- gaugeStandard of measurement
- calipersAdjustable-jaw measuring device
dividers · measuring · alignment · adjustment
liberty
Absence of unjust constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- independenceFreedom from external control
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
liberation · unfettered · unrestrained · unshackled · unbound · release · free · unrestricted · unconstrained · unhindered
- burdensburden, load, onus, obligations, weight
- drafting toolscompass, T-square, protractor, triangle, ruler
- kitchen antiquescauldron, hearth, cast iron pot, cast iron skillet, butter churn
- metalworking toolshammer, anvil, forge, tongs, bellows
- meshworknet, netting, mesh, lattice, gridwork
- hearthhearth, fireplace tools, fire irons, hearthstone, hearth fire
untrammeled, trammeled, untrammelled, trammels, trammelled, trammeling