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Hackle :: Hackle (n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel..

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..

Hatchel :: Hatchel (n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle..

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.) Stubble.

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers..

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

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.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action..

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 (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain..

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..

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

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk..

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

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

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..

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

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

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