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

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..

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

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

Shacklock :: Shacklock (n.) A sort of shackle.

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

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

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

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..

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

Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

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..

Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

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.) 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 (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..

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle..

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