Crossword clues for shackled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shackle \Shac"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shackled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shackling.]
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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. -
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. -
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.
Wiktionary
Restrained by shackles, chained. v
(en-past of: shackle)
WordNet
adj. bound by chains fastened around the ankles [syn: fettered, in bonds(p), in fetters(p)]
Wikipedia
Shackled was a bondage magazine published by London Enterprises and distributed by Lyndon Distributors. It depicted bound and disciplined women.
Shackle is a 2012 Indonesian horror film directed by Upi Avianto. The film is set in Jakarta and involves Elang ( Abimana Aryasatya) who has nightmares about an unknown woman in a car with a man in a rabbit suit and dead bodies in the back. Elang later sees this woman in a bar and explains that she's been evicted from her apartment. Elang's nightmares grow worse after he is told by the woman that men had raped and tortured her. Elang agrees to accompany her to face them.
Belenggu had its premiere at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival where it was shown in competition on July 20, 2012.
Shackled is a short drama- thriller film which was released in 2012, starring Emilia Clarke and Hadley Fraser.
Shackled may refer to:
- Shackled (magazine), a bondage magazine published by London Enterprises.
- Shackled (2012 British film), a short British film
- Shackled (2012 Indonesian film), an Indonesian horror film
Usage examples of "shackled".
Conjurer was triple cuffed and double shackled, two officers pulled the man into a sitting position on the floor.
Morgan gritted his teeth and struggled as they yanked his arms behind him and shackled his wrists.
They stopped, shackled his ankles, and then pulled him around the corner.
Expecting gratitude and a warm welcome, they had found themselves shackled, imprisoned and coerced.
A strung-out row of blue- and khaki-suited prisoners still shackled together and now seated on the ground.
He pulled out his Norelco mini-recorder and focused on the five shackled prisoners.
David withdrew his shackled wrists, and his cell door was finally opened.
Once shackled, the animal is automatically lifted onto a moving overhead rail.
From that window, Rod had counted six or seven conscious cattle shackled and hung in twenty minutes.
How could he escape when he was shackled hand and foot in strange country?
And, what was worse, by the manner in which the women of various colors were being cajoled toward the stage in shackled feet, Ronda knew they were unwilling auction chattel.
She was naked, oiled up like a bimbo at a sleazy sex bar, and shackled at the feet.
She had been, thereafter, their experiment finished, shackled during the day, handcuffed to the cot at night.
I am a slave, she had said to herself, lying on the hide, her ankles shackled in leather, I am a slave!
Three hundred years of the hatred of the shackled Africk gleamed in his eyes.