Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of shackle is as below...

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..

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

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..

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

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..

Empty :: Empty (superl.) Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles..

Trammel :: Trammel (n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle..

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

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

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

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

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

Pastern :: Pastern (n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing.

Unshackle :: Unshackle (v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.

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..

Gyve :: Gyve (v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain.

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

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

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular