v. Also 7 entramel. [f. EN-1 + TRAMMEL.] trans. a. To put into trammels or nets. Only fig. To entangle, fetter, hamper. † b. ? To bind, plait (the hair) (obs.).
Hence † Entrammelled ppl. a. † Entrammelling vbl. sb.
1598. Florio, Lucignoli … entramelings or curlings of haires wrought and enterlaced togither with ribands. Ibid. (1603), Montaigne, III. v. (1632), 492. They ensnared, glewed, entrameled, haltred and shackled themselves.
1611. Cotgr., Passe-fillons … any frizled lockes, or entrammelled tufts of haire.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1693), 104. Entramell’d with Fictions and Ignorance.
1841. Fraser’s Mag., XXIII. 278. To thee alone can I entrust the duty of entrammelling and fettering this bold spirit.
1880. F. Hueffer, in Macm. Mag., Nov., 45. Twanging his guitar with no … rule to entrammel his passionate effusion.
