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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.

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

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

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

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

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..

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.) 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..

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..

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.

Fetter :: Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

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..

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

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

Stricken :: Strick (n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.

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

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

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.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action..

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