shackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃækl̩/
ipa: /ˈʃæk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: shackles
form: shackling
form: shackled
form: shackled
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: shackle
form: shackle
form: shackled
form: shackle
form: shacklest
form: shackled
form: shackledst
form: shackles
form: shackleth
form: shackled
form: shackle
form: shackled
form: shackle
form: shackled
form: shackle
form: -
form: shackling
form: shackled
Etymology: From Middle English schakelen, schakkylen (“(also figurative) to put (someone) in shackles; to protect (legs) with greaves”), from shakel, schakkyl, schakle (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs).
Senses: examples: text: A man giuen ouer to ſenſual appetite carrieth fetters in his eyes, vvhervvith he shackleth, glevv, vvhervvith he layeth faſt hold, hookes, vvhervvith he catcheth, flames vvhervvith he burneth, ſhafts, vvhervvith he transfixeth both his ovvne and the ſoules of other men: ſhackled vvith theſe fetters, caught vvith these hookes, burnt vvith theſe flames: transfixed vvith theſe shafts vvas the Aſſyrian Holofernes.
ref: 1633, Hier[emas] Drexlius [i.e., Jeremias Drexel], “The Fifth Allurement to Incontinency, Wandring Eyes”, in R. S. [Robert Stanford?], transl., Nicetas or The Triumph ouer Incontinencie […], [Rouen, Normandy]: […] [The widow of N. Courant], →OCLC, book I, § II, page 56:
text: Huelydd, sub[stantive] a fetterer, he that shackleth or fettereth
ref: 1815, Thomas Richards, “Huelydd, sub.”, in Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thesaurus. A Welsh and English Dictionary: […], 2nd edition, Trefriw, Clwyd, Wales: […] I. Davies […], →OCLC, page 269, column 1:
text: The chariot jumps, on which thou art. Thou art troubled to hold up thy horses. If it falls into the abyss, the pole drags thee down too. Thy ceintures are pulled away. They fall down. Thou shacklest the horse, because the pole is broken on the path of the narrow pass. Not knowing how to bind it up, thou understandest not how it is to be repaired.
ref: 1879, Henry Brugsch-Bey [i.e., Heinrich Karl Brugsch], “The Nineteenth Dynasty. The People of the Khita.”, in Henry Danby Seymour, Philip Smith, transl., edited by Philip Smith, A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs: Derived Entirely from the Monuments […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 107:
text: Nae doubt it's a hard thing to skulk and starve in the heather, but it's harder yet to lie shackled in a red-coat prison.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 173:
synonyms: beshackle
cuff
enshackle
fetter
handcuff
manacle
antonyms: uncuff
unfetter
unhandcuff
unmanacle
unshackle
glosses: To place (a person or animal) in shackles (noun sense 1); to immobilize or restrain using shackles.
glosses: To connect or couple (something) to another thing using a shackle (noun sense 1.1.1, sense 1.1.3, etc.).
glosses: To provide (something) with a shackle.
examples: text: This law would effectively shackle its opposition.
text: [I]t were a plaine ſlauerie, ⁊ iniurie to, to ſhakkle and tye a good witte, and hinder the courſe of a mãs [man's] good nature with ſuch bondes of ſeruitude, in folowyng other.
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, “[The Second Booke Teachyng the Ready Way to the Latin Tong]”, in Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC, folios 48, recto – 48, verso:
text: Of it ſelfe it [the law] is the cord of a Iudge vvhich bindeth hand and foot, and ſhackleth unto condemnation; but by Chriſt it is made the cord of a man, and the band of Love, by vvhich he teacheth us to goe, even as a nurſe her infant.
ref: 1632, Edward Reynolds, “The Life of Christ: Or, The Fellowship of the Saints with Him, in His Life, Sufferings, and Resurrection”, in Three Treatises of The Vanity of the Creature. The Sinfulnesse of Sinne. The Life of Christ. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostocke, […], →OCLC, page 416:
text: AN Eagle made a Stoop at a Lamb; Truſs'd it, and took it Cleverly avvay vvith her. A Mimical Davv, that ſavv This Exploit, vvould needs try the ſame Experiment upon a Ram: But his Clavvs vvere ſo Shackled in the Fleece vvith Lugging to get him up, that the Shepherd came in, and Caught him, before he could Cleare Himſelf; He Clipt his VVings, and carry'd him Home to his Children to Play vvithal.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] LXXV. An Eagle and a Daw.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 74:
text: [T]he abſurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, ſhackles the mind, and prepares it for a ſlaviſh ſubmiſſion to any povver but reaſon.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Duty to Parents”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 351:
text: Senator [Gale William] McGee. Again to make sure we haven't contradicted the record here, we do not construe anything you say here this morning to favor shackling the Commission? […] Mr. Jackson. No, sir. Well, this is a matter of semantics. By the same token, we don't—it is not our purpose to give them unrestricted power.
ref: 1962 February 22, Jack Jackson, “Statement of Jack Jackson, Director of Public Relations, the National Grange”, in All-channel Television Receivers: Hearings before the Communications Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 2109: A Bill to Amend the Communications Act of 1934 in Order to Give the Federal Communications Commission certain Regulatory Authority over Television Receiving Apparatus […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 240:
text: Some say the plague was brought by Hattie / There was talk of a hangin' too. / But the talk got shackled by the howls and the cackles / From the bowels of the Black Bayou.
ref: 1974 February 5, Jim Stafford, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.: MGM Records, →OCLC:
text: [Wayne] Rooney, superbly shackled by City defender Vincent Kompany for so long as [Alex] Ferguson surprisingly left Dimitar Berbatov on the bench, had previously cut a forlorn and frustrated figure but his natural instincts continue to serve him and United so well.
ref: 2011 February 12, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 2 – 1 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 08 May 2024:
synonyms: bind
hamshackle
tie
antonyms: free
liberate
unbind
unshackle
untie
glosses: To inhibit or restrain the ability, action, activity, or progress of (someone or something); to render (someone or something) incapable or ineffectual.
examples: text: Bitterneſs is produced by a Sulphur vvell impregnated, either vvith an Alkaline, or an Acid Salt, but alſo ſhackled vvith Earth.
ref: 1675 April 4 (Gregorian calendar), Nehemiah Grew, “[Several Lectures Read before the Royal Society.] A Discourse of the Diversities and Causes of Tasts Chiefly in Plants. Read before the Royal Society, March 25. 1675. Chapter IV. Of the Causes of Tasts.”, in The Anatomy of Plants. […], [London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC, page 288:
text: [A] little of that Fixed Salt, ſerves, it ſeems, to Shackle or Cryſtallize (vvhich is a degree of Fixation) a very great quantity of the Eſſential Salt of this Plant.
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, “Of Arborescent Plants”, in Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC, part II (Of Plants), page 224:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To combine (a substance) with another substance.
glosses: Of two things: to connect or couple together.
Derived terms: word: hamshackle
word: shackler
word: shackling
word: unshackle