Definition of shackle

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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..

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Unbind :: Unbind (v. t.) To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load..
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
Manacle :: Manacle (n.) A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.
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..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple..
Gyve :: Gyve (v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain.
Coupler :: Coupler (n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars..
Shackled :: Shackled (imp. & p. p.) of Shackl.
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.
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..
Loose :: Loose (a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
Trammel :: Trammel (n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle..
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..
Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
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..
Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..
Unshackle :: Unshackle (v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.
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