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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

Coupler :: Coupler (n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars..

Empty :: Empty (superl.) Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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