shackle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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).
Inflected forms:
form: shackles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shackling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shackled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shackled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: shackle
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: shackle
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: shackled
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: shackle
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: shacklest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: shackled
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: shackledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: shackles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shackleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: shackled
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: shackle
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: shackled
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: shackle
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: shackled
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: shackle
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: shackling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shackled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To place (a person or animal) in shackles (noun etymology 1 sense 1); to immobilize or restrain using shackles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Huelydd, sub[stantive] a fetterer, he that shackleth or fettereth
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.
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.
gloss: To connect or couple (something) to another thing using a shackle (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1.1, etymology 1 sense 1.1.3, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide (something) with a shackle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To inhibit or restrain the ability, action, activity, or progress of (someone or something); to render (someone or something) incapable or ineffectual.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: This law would effectively shackle its opposition.
[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.
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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
[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.
gloss: To combine (a substance) with another substance.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: Bitterneſs is produced by a Sulphur vvell impregnated, either vvith an Alkaline, or an Acid Salt, but alſo ſhackled vvith Earth.
[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.
gloss: Of two things: to connect or couple together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
Derived words: hamshackle
shackler
shackling
unshackle
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