deprive of freedom of action

we have no wish to be trammelled by convention

restrictions or impediments to freedom of action

we will forge our own future, free from the trammels of materialism

a three-layered dragnet, designed so that a fish entering through one of the large-meshed outer sections will push part of the finer-meshed central section through the large meshes on the further side, forming a pocket in which the fish is trapped

an instrument consisting of a board with two grooves intersecting at right angles, in which the two ends of a beam compass can slide to draw an ellipse

a hook in a fireplace for a kettle