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Definition of Tramel
1. Noun. An instrument, or device, sometimes of leather, more usually of rope, fitted to a horse's legs, to regulate his motions, and form him to amble. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tramel
1. to trammel [v -ELED, -ELING, -ELS or -ELLED, -ELLING, -ELS] - See also: trammel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tramel
Literary usage of Tramel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"As Ic, the Ufe a/'the tramel ; bring the ... tramel. ... tramel-NET, is a long
net for the taking great and ..."
2. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1876)
"... save only in the day time between the rising and setting of the sun, nor any
tramel net put down or set for the catching of fish within said distances ..."
3. The Early Records of the Town of Providence by Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners (1901)
"... pan oo - 16 - oo Jt a sword and belt oo - 12-00 Jt three Chests oo - 12 - oo
Jt a Gun 01-05-00 Jt a tramel fire tongs ..."
4. Argument of Joseph R. Ingersoll, Esq., Before the General Assembly of New by Joseph Reed Ingersoll (1834)
"It would be to counteract this wise policy, to tramel and restrain it, or to
place upon it undue and inexorable restrictions and conditions. ..."
5. The Sportsman's Dictionary; Or, The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Hunting (1785)
"... changing from one fide to another, till with this half- tramel he will run and
... you may put on the whole tramel, with the broad, flat back- band, ..."
6. The Farriers's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary:: Containing the Art of ...by Thomas Wallis by Thomas Wallis (1766)
"See the arti- that the tramel is often made too cle tramel. long, and (b gives no
... In a true tramel, the fide anatomy to ..."
7. The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary: Containing the Art of by Thomas Wallis (1759)
"As to the matter of the tramel, feme make it all ot leather, ... When by thus
changing from one fide to another, with a hait tramel, ..."
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