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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.

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..

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

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