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Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis..

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

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

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc..

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

Hamper :: Hamper (v. t.) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber..

Bilbo :: Bilbo (n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships..

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.

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.

Jew''s-harp :: Jew's-harp (n.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.

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

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..

Shackled :: Shackled (imp. & p. p.) of Shackl.

Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

Bond :: Bond (n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle..

Manacle :: Manacle (v. t.) To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers..

Gyve :: Gyve (n.) A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter..

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter..

Hamshackle :: Hamshackle (v. t.) To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb..

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