ppl. a. [f. TRANMEL sb.1 and v. + -ED.]
1. † a. Of hair: Braided or bound up in trammels.
1609. Heywood, Brit. Troy, V. lxxv. Is her haire browne?… Browne trameld lockes best grace the brightest hew.
b. (See quot.)
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., A horse is said to be tramelled, that has blazes or white marks upon the fore and hind foot of one side;… so called from the resemblance the white foot bears to a half tramel. Cross-tramelled horse, is one that has white marks in two of his feet that stand cross-ways,… as in the far fore-foot, and the near hind-foot.
2. Confined by or as by trammels; fettered, shackled.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, V. xxxiii. Harpool clasp’d His knees … And round the trammelled ruffian clung.
1818. Lady Charleville, in Lady Morgan’s Autobiog. (1859), 12. If your book be cut and garbled by those vile inspectors of a trammelled press.
1821. Joanna Baillie, Metr. Leg., Wallace, xvi. Who from their trammell’d country broke.
