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Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles..

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

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

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

Heckle :: Heckle (n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.

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

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..

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel..

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

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..

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel..

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

Fetter :: Fetter (n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle..

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

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

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

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

Hatchel :: Hatchel (n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle..

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

Hackled :: Hackled (imp. & p. p.) of Hackl.

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