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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.






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"Shackle" Quotes from Famous Books



... so determined in those brilliant eyes, that Grenfall felt like looking up the conductor to congratulate him. The dinner was served, and while it was being discussed his fair companion of the drive graphically described the experience of twenty strange minutes in a shackle-down mountain coach. He was surprised to find that she omitted no part, not even the hand clasp or the manner in which she clung to him. His ears burned as he listened to this frank confession, for he expected ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... Palestine, and when cometh again the Passover of the Jews, when Jerusalem, that great city, is thronged with the population of the world, then shall he be made King—King of the People—the toiling people! And this King shall break every shackle on every human body and free from cave and dungeon, every human soul. But one thing there remaineth to determine. This is the added strength of Roman legions in Jerusalem at the Passover. Would that the gods could let us know ...
— The Coming of the King • Bernie Babcock



Words linked to "Shackle" :   restrain, manacle, handcuff, chains, trammel, hobble, confine, padlock, ball and chain, hold, cuff, restraint, constraint, irons, hamper, handlock, bond, bar, fetter



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