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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

1. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
2. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
3. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
4. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
5. A net for confining a woman's hair.
6. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
7. (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. A beam compass

Verbit

1. To entangle, as in a net.
2. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.