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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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1828 Definition
SHACK'LE, n. Stubble. [In Scotish, shag is the refuse of barley, or that which is not well filled, and is given to horses. The word shack then is probably from a root which signifies to break, to reject, or to waste, or it may be allied to shag and shake.]
SHACK'LE, v.t.
1. To chain; to fetter; to tie or confine the limbs so as to prevent free motion.
So the stretch'd cord the shackled dancer tries,
As prone to fall as impotent to rise. Smith.
2. To bind or confine so as to obstruct or embarrass action.
You must not shackle him with the rules about indifferent matter. Locke.
SHACK'LE, n. [generally used in the plural.]
1913 Definition
Stubble.
[Prov. Eng.] Pegge. 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.
His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean. Spenser. Hence, that which checks or prevents free
action.
His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles. South. A fetterlike band worn as an
ornament.
Most of the men and women . . . had all earrings made of gold, and gold shackles about their legs and arms. Dampier. A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with
a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop
removed; a clevis.
A link for connecting railroad cars; --
called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by
which it is hung to the staple.
Knight.
Shackle joint (Anat.), a joint formed by a bony ring passing through a hole in a bone, as at the bases of spines in some fishes. 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 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. | ||||||||
