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