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shack·le    Audio Help   [shak-uhl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -led, -ling.
–noun
1.a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
2.a hobble or fetter for a horse or other animal.
3.the U-shaped bar of a padlock, one end of which is pivoted or sliding, the other end of which can be released, as for passing through a staple, and then fastened, as for securing a hasp.
4.any of various fastening or coupling devices.
5.Often, shackles. anything that serves to prevent freedom of procedure, thought, etc.
–verb (used with object)
6.to put a shackle or shackles on; confine or restrain by a shackle or shackles.
7.to fasten or couple with a shackle.
8.to restrain in action, thought, etc., as by restrictions; restrict the freedom of.

[Origin: bef. 1000; (n.) ME schakle, schakyl(le); OE sceacel fetter; c. LG schakel hobble, ON skǫkull wagon pole, (v.) late ME schaklyn, deriv. of the n.]

shackler, noun

1. chain, manacle, handcuff, gyve, bilboes. 5. obstacle, obstruction, impediment, encumbrance. 6. restrict, fetter, chain, handcuff, hobble. 8. trammel, impede, slow, stultify, dull.
6, 8. liberate, free.
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n.  
  1. A metal fastening, usually one of a pair, for encircling and confining the ankle or wrist of a prisoner or captive; a fetter or manacle.
  2. A hobble for an animal.
  3. Any of several devices, such as a clevis, used to fasten or couple.
  4. A restraint or check to action or progress. Often used in the plural: economic shackles that precluded further investment.

tr.v.   shack·led, shack·ling, shack·les
  1. To confine with shackles; fetter.
  2. To fasten or connect with a shackle.
  3. To restrict, confine, or hamper. See Synonyms at hamper1.


[Middle English schackel, from Old English sceacel, fetter.]

shack'ler n.
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shackle 
O.E. sceacel, from P.Gmc. *skakula- (cf. M.Du., Du. schakel "link of a chain," O.N. skökull "pole of a carriage"), of uncertain origin. The common notion of "something to fasten or attach" makes a connection with shake unlikely. The verb is first recorded c.1440. Shacklebolt "bolt which passes through the eyes of a shackle" is recorded from 1688.

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shackle

noun
1. a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) 
2. a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar 

verb
1. bind the arms of [syn: pinion
2. restrain with fetters [syn: fetter

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ˈshackle verb
to put shackles on
Arabic: يُكَبِّل، يَضَع القيود، يَشْكُل
Chinese (Simplified): 给…上铐
Chinese (Traditional): 給…上銬
Czech: nasadit pouta
Danish: lænke
Dutch: boeien
Estonian: käeraudadesse aheldama
Finnish: kahlita
French: mettre les fers à
German: in Ketten legen
Greek: αλυσοδένω
Hungarian: megbilincsel
Icelandic: hlekkja
Indonesian: merantai kaki
Italian: mettere in ceppi*
Japanese: 足かせをする
Korean: 수갑[족쇄]을 채우다
Latvian: iekalt važās
Lithuanian: uždėti grandines
Norwegian: lenke
Polish: zakuć w kajdany
Portuguese (Brazil): algemar
Portuguese (Portugal): agrilhoar
Romanian: a încătuşa
Russian: заковывать в кандалы
Slovak: nasadiť putá
Slovenian: vkleniti
Spanish: poner grilletes
Swedish: sätta bojor på, fjättra
Turkish: prangaya vurmak
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Shackle

Shac"kle\, n. Stubble. [Prov. Eng.] --Pegge.
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Shackle

Shac"kle\, n. [Generally used in the plural.] [OE. schakkyll, schakle, AS. scacul, sceacul, a shackle, fr. scacan to shake; cf. D. schakel a link of a chain, a mesh, Icel. sk["o]kull the pole of a cart. See Shake.]

1. 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.

His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean. --Spenser.

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

His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles. --South.

3. A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.

Most of the men and women . . . had all earrings made of gold, and gold shackles about their legs and arms. --Dampier.

4. 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.

5. A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.

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

Shackle joint (Anat.), a joint formed by a bony ring passing through a hole in a bone, as at the bases of spines in some fishes.
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Shackle

Shac"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shackled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shackling.]

1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.

To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. --J. Philips.

2. Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.

Shackled by her devotion to the king, she seldom could pursue that object. --Walpole.

3. To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars. [U. S.]

Shackle bar, the coupling between a locomotive and its tender. [U.S.]

Shackle bolt, a shackle. --Sir W. Scott.
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