trammel

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• /ˈtræməl/
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From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пречка (prečka) — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Chinese Mandarin: 桎梏 (zhìgù) — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Finnish: este — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Finnish: pidäke — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Galician: péga — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Galician: atranco — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Galician: traba — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• German: Behinderung — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• German: Hinderung — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• German: Fessel — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Italian: rete — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Russian: поме́ха (poméxa) — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Spanish: traba — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Swedish: hinder — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Swedish: band — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Swedish: fjätter — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Swedish: tvångströja — something that impedes activity, freedom, or progress
• Bulgarian: чатал (čatal) — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Catalan: clemàstecs — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Dutch: ketelhaak — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Dutch: heugel — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Finnish: patakoukku — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• French: crémaillère — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Galician: gramalleira — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• German: Kesselhaken — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Italian: griglia — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Italian: anello — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Italian: piastra — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Italian: riduzione — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Italian: radiante — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Luxembourgish: Héil — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjerding — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Russian: крючо́к (krjučók) — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Spanish: llares — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Swedish: grytkrok — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Welsh: bachyn crochan — device to suspend cooking pots over a fire
• Finnish: kietoa — to entangle, as in a net
• German: fesseln — to entangle, as in a net
• German: umfangen — to entangle, as in a net
• Russian: лови́ть (lovítʹ) — to entangle, as in a net
• Spanish: trabar — to entangle, as in a net
• Bulgarian: преча (preča) — to hamper
• Bulgarian: спъвам (spǎvam) — to hamper
• Finnish: kahlita — to hamper
• German: behindern — to hamper
• German: hemmen — to hamper
• German: hindern — to hamper
• German: bremsen — to hamper
• Russian: заде́рживать (zadérživatʹ) — to hamper
• Russian: препя́тствовать (prepjátstvovatʹ) — to hamper
• Russian: меша́ть (mešátʹ) — to hamper
• Russian: затрудня́ть (zatrudnjátʹ) — to hamper
• Spanish: trabar — to hamper
• Swedish: hindra — to hamper
• Swedish: fånga — to hamper