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

Brennan argued that the plan, like that in Weber, did not "unnecessarily trammel" the interests of whites by creating an absolute bar to their employment.

From Time Magazine Archive

How thoroughly it shows the idleness and folly of attempting to limit, or trammel, or hamper discussion upon the general questions which are presented for our action!

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

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

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

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

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

I once heard a lady who had playfully competed with men in a jumping match gravely attribute her defeat to the trammeling of her skirt.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes

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

The whole room was to have been finished in eight years; but ill-health and other vexations trammelled the artist, and the series remains uncompleted.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

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

He was ragged, tanned, dusty, neither shoes nor coat trammelling his independence; and he had evidently entered the garden through the gap in the hedge.

From The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington

But in his later works he swung clear of these trammelling archaisms, and produced brilliant and memorable compositions.

From Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. Sweetser

But the deeds of the man who is really free have no such trammelling effects, for they are not prompted by desire nor directed to an object.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

Long years after he bemoaned his ignorance and want of education when he felt all the drawbacks, the trammelling, the holding-down of it, when he realised how it handicapped him in the race of life.

From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by A. Fraser Robertson