Definition of shackle
English to English noun - a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
source: WordNet 3.0 - a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
source: WordNet 3.0 - Stubble.
source: Webster 1913 - 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.
source: Webster 1913 verb - bind the arms of
source: WordNet 3.0 - restrain with fetters
source: WordNet 3.0 - To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
source: Webster 1913 English to Tagalog verb - [siákl] Itanikalâ
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
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shackly, shale, shockley, sale, shakily, saccule, scole, scyle, shole, secle, salue, sea cole, shawl, shaly, swale, scale, shail, sea kale, socle, sicle
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