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Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.

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.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.

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

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..

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..

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..

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

Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars..

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 (n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used..

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

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; 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.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action..

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

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

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..

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

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

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