trammel

In addition to being noisy, the superwide rubber can trammel a bit over patched and imperfect highway surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

When he brings his cattle to eat the alfalfa, they will spread their waste across the fields and trammel old vegetation into the earth.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Federal courts, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the majority, should interrogate the true intentions and effects of laws that seem suspiciously eager to trammel constitutional rights.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2016

No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across.

From Time Magazine Archive

The disc is turned about two hundred and twenty-five degrees, or a little less than three-quarters of a revolution; then the line marked “Exhaust closes 1 and 4” will register with the trammel point.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?

Here had at long, long last arrived the day when LSU, that jalopy long trammeled in primitive offense and thumping defeats, came to Alabama and stormed up and down the field like some attacking symphony.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2019

This doctrine trammeled minimum wage and maximum hour rules, as well as laws safeguarding workers’ right to unionize.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2018

The court swiftly rejected this contention, distinguishing Bessinger’s absolute right to his beliefs from his right to exercise those beliefs in a manner that trammeled the legal rights of others.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2017

Much of this ground has been well-trod, not to say trammeled.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2014

Youth and social approval allied themselves with me and we trammeled memories of slights and insults.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Even then, before anyone had discerned the global fingerprints of PCBs or climate change, the founders of the Wilderness Society realized that most places had some history of human habitation; most places had experienced some sort of trammeling.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2014

The law’s call to protect places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man” has always been poignant, and our enthusiasm for trammeling seems greater every year.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2014

But for me, the darker scenario in 1984 is the reimagining of the English language into Newspeak, and the trammeling of thought it implies.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012

Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems almost apologetic that his body must accompany his senses into the wilderness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Act after act was laid upon everything connected with wool, so that it is only extraordinary that, under such restrictive trammeling, the trade survived at all.

From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney

Once my children learned to speak, it was curious to observe that their own anxieties trammelled along similar lines, the necessity of attaching a cause – any cause – to their fears.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019

The other patients in the facility seemed beaten down by the irreversibility of their situation, but Fidyka projected an intense, if trammelled, physicality.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016

She particularly likes fictional treatments of "restraint", emotions trammelled or kept down, as when marking, in Middlemarch, "a delicate chapter, low-keyed emotions but minutely traced".

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010

Some were talking quietly to each other, some re-tying their laces, others just staring down at their feet as they trammelled the mud.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Louis XIV. resolutely broke the numerous threads which had trammelled the power of his predecessors.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine

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.

From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

There is so marked an absence of carving that it seems as if ornamentation would have been weakening and trammelling.

From Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose

Once that Swithin’s emancipation from a trammelling body had been effected by the telescope, and he was well away in space, she felt her influence over him diminishing to nothing. 

From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

We scorned the trammelling window, and chose to mingle with our fellow-men, with our fellow-butcher-and-baker boys, as well as with little knots of intrepid, amused women, like ourselves.

From One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard

Far from adding to his comfort, these observances, by trammelling his every act, annihilate his freedom and often render the very life, which it is their object to preserve, a burden and sorrow to him.

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer