Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎣 A fishing net 📏 A drawing tool ⛓️ A restriction 🚫 To restrict
tramell

tramell

9.9
A tool for drawing large, accurate oval shapes and curves
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : elipsógrafo
  • The engineer used a tramell to create perfect ellipses for his technical drawings.

Examples

  • A tramell can help artists draw smooth, accurate curves on large surfaces.

  • He demonstrated how a tramell works during the geometry lesson.

  • The tramell is on the desk.

  • Can you pass me the tramell?

  • The engineer used a tramell to create perfect ellipses for his technical drawings.

  • A tramell can help artists draw smooth, accurate curves on large surfaces.

  • He demonstrated how a tramell works during the geometry lesson.

Antonyms

straightedge
1 5.1

A flat bar like a ruler for drawing and checking straight lines

Surface Forms

tramell singular
tramells plural

Etymology

Tramell as a drawing tool gets its name from the same old word trama meaning 'weft' or 'woven threads', because the device controls a moving point like threads guiding its path. That's why a tramell (the trammel of Archimedes) makes smooth, fixed ellipses by limiting motion.