Definition of shackle

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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..

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Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars..
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..
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..
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
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..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.
Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
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..
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..
Shacklock :: Shacklock (n.) A sort of shackle.
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..
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle..
Coupler :: Coupler (n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars..
Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
Gyve :: Gyve (n.) A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter..
Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
Trammel :: Trammel (n.) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Fetter :: Fetter (n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle..
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