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Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.

Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.

Gyve :: Gyve (v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain..

Empty :: Empty (superl.) Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles..

Trammel :: Trammel (n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle..

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.

Coupler :: Coupler (n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars..

Unbind :: Unbind (v. t.) To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load..

Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple..

Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..

Loose :: Loose (a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

Manacle :: Manacle (n.) A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.

Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action..

Fetter :: Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

Wearer :: Wearer (n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc..

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