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Shackle   /ʃˈækəl/   Listen
Shackle

noun
1.
A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner).  Synonyms: bond, hamper, trammel.
2.
A U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar.
verb
(past & past part. shackled; pres. part. shackling)
1.
Bind the arms of.  Synonym: pinion.
2.
Restrain with fetters.  Synonym: fetter.






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"Shackle" Quotes from Famous Books



... with it," said the Hatter, with a valiant shake of his hat. "We're going to grab it by its throat, and shake it down, and shackle it so that in forty years it will become as tame as a fly or any other highly ...
— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs

... of a convulsion fit did not long shackle the determined Bruce. The energy of his spirit struggling to gain the side of Wallace in this his extreme need (for he well knew Edward's implacable soul), roused him from his worse than swoon. With his extended arms dashing away the restoratives with which both Isabella and Ercildown ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter

... quivering face and saw in it, dimly, the face of the girl in his locket, not a mere outward semblance this time but the soul of Molly Weston, reaching out to him across the years. Her light touch on his arm was the very shackle of fate. Her glance claimed him. Nothing that she had done could modify that claim—the terrible claim of weakness upon the ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... 1848—the prison van, escorted by a large force of mounted police and dragoons, with drawn sabres, drove up to the prison gate. It was opened, and forth walked John Mitchel—in fetters. A heavy chain was attached to his right leg by a shackle at the ankle; the other end was to have been attached to the left leg, but as the jailors had not time to effect the connexion when the order came for the removal of the prisoner, they bade him take it in his hand, and it was in this plight, with a festoon of iron from his hand to his foot, ...
— Speeches from the Dock, Part I • Various

... at the stake, which to defeate I must produce my power. Heere, take her hand, Proud scornfull boy, vnworthie this good gift, That dost in vile misprision shackle vp My loue, and her desert: that canst not dreame, We poizing vs in her defectiue scale, Shall weigh thee to the beame: That wilt not know, It is in Vs to plant thine Honour, where We please to haue it grow. Checke thy contempt: Obey Our will, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare


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