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Shackled   /ʃˈækəld/   Listen
verb
Shackle  v. t.  (past & past part. shackled; pres. part. shackling)  
1.
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."
2.
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."
3.
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.





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"Shackled" Quotes from Famous Books



... which had craved success, recognition, the youthful, vital part of him was dead, slain by the same bullet which had ended poor Hilda Ryder's happy life; and although he was beginning to look forward to a new and less cramped career than this which now shackled him, the joyous, optimistic anticipation ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... He tore himself away only because there was no other means of working for the liberation of his country. While he remained in Germany, he could do nothing; for years of tribulation had been the proof. Right was shackled. Germany was no longer a Rechtsstaat. Oppression was universal; and, still worse, it was anonymous. The power of the sword, irresponsible, was supreme. Parliament no longer existed. The press no longer existed. The chancellor, the emperor himself, were subject to the mysterious "Unknown who rules ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland
... kill me, massa, den 'em stop sufferin'!" said the poor fellow, in a painful murmur, raising his shackled hands to his head, and grasping the heavy chain that secured his neck, in the ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams
... is full nigh of my kin, And in Newgate we dwelled together; For he and I were both shackled in ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley
... like the tone of the second line, but the fury of enthusiasm, shackled by the exigencies of rhyme, must be forgiven ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 • Various


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