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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

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..

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

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

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.

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