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

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

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

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.

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..

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

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.

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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