Definitions for shackles

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shackles shack·le

Spelling: [shak-uh l]

IPA: /ˈʃæk əl/

Shackles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 253 anagrams from letters in shackles (acehklss).

Definitions for shackles

noun

1. a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
2. a hobble or fetter for a horse or other animal.
3. the U -shaped bar of a padlock, one end of which is pivoted or sliding, the other end of which can be released, as for passing through a staple, and then fastened, as for securing a hasp.
4. any of various fastening or coupling devices.
5. Often, shackles. anything that serves to prevent freedom of procedure, thought, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to put a shackle or shackles on; confine or restrain by a shackle or shackles.
2. to fasten or couple with a shackle.
3. to restrain in action, thought, etc., as by restrictions; restrict the freedom of.

Origin of shackles

before 1000; (noun) Middle English schakle, schakyl(le); Old English sceacel fetter; cognate with Low German schakel hobble, Old Norse skǫkull wagon pole, (v.) late Middle English schaklyn, d

Examples for shackles

Conservatives distrust public officials and want to shackle them with detailed rules.

Did I make them, I would not attempt to shackle the conscience of any one.

My tormentors did not shackle me; I was spared that humiliation.

shackle followed him, net in one hand, wooden netting-needle in the other.

“Why, the beggars have knocked the shackle off the chain,” cried Raft.

He went off again, and shackle stood shaking his fist after him.

An institution that might have protected us two hundred years ago has become a shackle.

Sad and strange to say, it is also associated with the whip, the shackle, and the cowhide.

A town without a charter,' he says, 'is a town without a shackle.'

So given all the evidence against it, why shackle women at all?