Dictionary Entry
shackle
shackle is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Stubble. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
Stubble.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
- 4noun
A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
- 7noun
The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
- 8transitive verb
To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
- 9transitive verb
Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
- 10transitive verb
To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
- 11noun
a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- 12noun
a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
- 13verb
restrain with fetters
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- 14verb
bind the arms of
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