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Trammel :: Trammel (n.) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.

Pastern :: Pastern (n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing.

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..

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

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

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

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.

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..

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

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

Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

Shacklock :: Shacklock (n.) A sort of shackle.

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