trammel vs vane

trammel

noun
  • A beam compass. 

  • A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey. 

  • A net for confining a woman's hair. 

  • A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble. 

  • A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle 

  • Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle. 

  • A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc. 

  • An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil. 

verb
  • To entangle, as in a net. 

  • To confine; to hamper; to shackle. 

vane

noun
  • A sight on a sextant or compass. 

  • Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid. 

  • One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile. 

  • The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft. 

  • A weather vane. 

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