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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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