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trammel'd

Archaic Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

To trammel is to entangle or restrain, often with a net or bonds.

Detailed Definition
In older English, to trammel something means to catch, bind, or hinder it. Keats uses the participle in a lush description of plants that are woven together, so the word helps create a sense of dense, enclosing growth.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Together intertwined and trammel’d fresh” uses “trammel’d” for entangled or caught; A trammel is a net, so the word retains an image of mesh and restraint; “Trammel’d vines” may be naturally intertwined rather than imprisoned; The apostrophe signals an archaic past-tense or participial form
Additional Notes
The form in the line is an archaic verb spelling, and many modern readers would not immediately know the meaning of 'trammel'd' in this context.; Found in the poem, Adonis Sleeping by John Keats
Also Known As
Entangled Bound Restrained Trapped
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