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

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..

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.

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

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

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Stubble.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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