shackle
IPA: ʃˈækʌɫ
noun
- (usually in the plural) A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger; normally used in pairs joined by a chain.
- A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
- A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
- A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
- A length of cable or chain equal to 12+¹⁄₂ fathoms or 75 feet, or later to 15 fathoms.
verb
- (transitive) To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
- (transitive, by extension) To render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of.
- (dialectal) To shake, rattle.
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Examples of "shackle" in Sentences
- Both are subject to the shackle, which is imposed as a criminal penalty, or by the power of sergeants and commanders.
- The DSEi website explicitly states the sale of "leg irons, gang chains, shackles and shackle bracelets" are prohibited.
- "Is a title worth it-- does a title shackle a person?" the former Alaska governor asked during a discussion of her 2012 plans
- Governments have no resources, so for those same governments to prop up the losers, they must by definition shackle the winners.
- She trotted out a line she's used before - going back, as JMart points out, at least a year to her fall appearance in Iowa - where she asked this question, Does a title shackle a person...
- He sent me videos of such practices that include "shackle and hoist", designed to help drain the blood from the animal much more rapidly by pulling it into the air with chains attached to its hind legs.
- GRACE: Well, on the other hand, to Jennifer Johnson, PIO with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation -- Jennifer, when a guy is in full shackle, which is not all that typical -- I mean, normally, a guy ` s either in handcuffs or handcuffs legirons.
- In fact, the chain shackle and wire rope clambered, as it were, up out of the groove on the right-hand side of the V of the wheel, got on the top of the rim of the V-wheel, and rushed down with a crash on the smaller wheel, giving, no doubt, a severe shock to the cable to which it was attached.
- But it is actually the last line that is the most relevant to modern culture for the progressive powers that be are determined to not only escape every "shackle" of Western civilization's past, they are committed to ignoring history, distorting history, and even inventing history to suit ideological ends.
- And then after we heard that there was a shackle, which is about a 24-inch total length chain with a handcuff at each end -- it's basically like leg shackles you see people put on their legs when brought into the courtroom -- as well as regular set of handcuffs, then we could start to say, OK, if she was on a bench and one end of that handcuff shackle was on the bench and she was trying to get out of her handcuffs, then I could say, OK, now I understand how that chain may have gotten across her neck.
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