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One of the rails of a tramway.

The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes.

To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.

Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle. [They] disdain the trammels of any sordid contract. Jeffrey.

A circular plate or a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the center, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft not in line with the first.

Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse. [Written also trammelled.]

One who uses a trammel net. Nares.

The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.

A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6.

One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.

To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.] Bartlett.

An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.

A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

Same as Tramroad.

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.