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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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trammel

/ˈtræməl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms trammels trammeling trammelling trammeled trammelled

  1. noun Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
  2. noun A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle.
  3. noun A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
  4. noun A vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height.
  5. noun Braids or plaits of hair.
  6. noun A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
  7. noun (engineering) 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.
  8. noun A beam compass.
  9. verb To entangle, as in a net.
  10. verb (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

trammel net shackle bond hamper trap entrap snare ensnare restrict restrain limit bound confine throttle

Etymology

From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey. Carew.
  2. noun A net for confining a woman's hair. Spenser.
  3. verb To entangle, as in a net; to catch. [R.] Shak.
  4. verb To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

Etymology [F. tramail, trémail, a net, LL. tremaculum, tremacle, a kind of net for taking fish; L. tres three + macula a mesh. See Three, and Mail armor.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trammel”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details