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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..

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

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

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.

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..

Hamper :: Hamper (v. t.) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Palmer :: Palmer (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle..

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

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

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

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

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

Bilbo :: Bilbo (n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships..

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

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