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The open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
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shackle
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And to Return, free of the shackles of human physical embodiment. ▪ Emboldened by what she saw her friend get away with, Diana felt able to loosen the shackles a little. ▪ Every few years the industry begins a campaign, backed ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sceacel "shackle, fetter," probably also in a general sense "a link or ring of a chain," from Proto-Germanic *skakula- (cognates: Middle Dutch, Dutch schakel "link of a chain, ring of a net," Old Norse skökull "pole of a carriage"), of uncertain ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger. Usually used in plural, to indicate a pair joined by a chain; a hobble. 2 A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal ...
Usage examples of shackle.
Having no shackle, he had to leave the bird blinkered, and the scarlet comb throbbed angrily.
The two ancient ladies, a Russian princess and the heiress to a rubber fortune, clients of the palazzo, have exited the elevator with them and wandered confusedly off into the night, somewhat shackled by their drawers, and now two soft splashes are heard at the far end of the Sotoportego del Capello where the gondolas dock at night.
Upside, enslaved here to the shackles of righteous employment, too tired to think straight, and Chyde is free as a bee down Southstairs, out of mortal company, light, and beauty.
He had been shackled during the trip he and Corbal had taken through space, or wherever, to reach this place.
He freed a fundamental process in cryptography from the shackles of time and error.
Conjurer was triple cuffed and double shackled, two officers pulled the man into a sitting position on the floor.
She sent a dreamlet, representing herself in woman form, in shackles, her side bleeding from abrasions, and with a brass bar in her mouth.
She then expatiated with equal success upon the consequences of indulged superstition, and the indispensable necessity of endeavouring to liberate the mind from the shackles of vulgar prejudices, which, she concluded with remarking, was considered by the discerning as the irrefragable testimony of an exalted mind.
He wears the Aristotelian cosmology like a shackle, clings to it like a wet-nurse, feeds upon its milk of false assumptions, and postulates the most unlikely machinery of epicycle, deferent, and equant.
In any case our immediate problem is a result of the diabolical ingenuity Edgars has displayed in shackling George in that manner.
How long had they been captives, heeding the call of the whip, the binding of shackles?
The forcefield flickered and died, but Dionysos remained shackled in leg irons and wrist irons.
In speaking so fiercely it was Levet he had in mind, who, following a dusky courtship in a coal-hole in Fetter Lane, had shackled himself to a woman later arrested for the picking of pockets.
And in the middle of it all Roger Lockless calmly went about his work, shifting down the line, one man at a time, opening shackles and bidding the men to stay calm until all were free.
If to throw off the shackles of Old World pedantry, and defy the paltry rules and examples of grammarians and rhetoricians, is the special province and the chartered privilege of the American writer, Timothy Dexter is the founder of a new school, which tramples under foot the conventionalities that hampered and subjugated the faculties of the poets, the dramatists, the historians, essayists, story-tellers, orators, of the worn-out races which have preceded the great American people.