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Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Unshackle :: Unshackle (v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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