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Fetter :: Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

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..

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

Fetter :: Fetter (n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a 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..

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

Heckle :: Heckle (n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.

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

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

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel..

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

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..

Stricken :: Strick (n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.

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.

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

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.

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..

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

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