shacklen.1
/ˈʃak(ə)l/ I. A kind of fetter.† 3. A fetter-like bond, esp. one used as an ornament, an armlet or anklet. Obsolete. rare.
1. A fetter for the ankle or wrist of a prisoner, usually one of a pair connected together by a chain, which is fastened to a ring-bolt in the floor or wall of the cell. In the Old English examples, a ring or collar for the neck of a prisoner.
a. singular.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s)
bendc890
shacklea1000
bandc1175
bonda1325
aneus1360
warlockc1400
leashc1430
link?a1500
shackle1540
cramp-ring1567
locketa1643
restraint1650
pinion1733
manacle1838
span1856
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 107/10 Columbar, sceacul, uel bend.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 116/10 Nerui boia fotcopsa, uel sweorscacul.]
c1425 Cast. Persev. 2655 in Macro Plays 156 Þou schalt be schakyn in myn schakle.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/2 Schakkyl, or schakle, murella, numella.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1594) 262 At last his shackell falleth from him,..the prison openeth and [etc.].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 336/1 I should rather take it [a Cop-sole and Pin] for a Shackle and Bolt.
1777 J. Cook Jrnl. 30 Oct. (1967) III. i. 238 He carried with him the shakle of the bilboo-bolt that was about his leg.
1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1855) 1st Ser. xviii. 303 It is not the shackle on the wrist that constitutes the slave—but the loss of self-respect.
b. plural.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s)
bendc890
shacklea1000
bandc1175
bonda1325
aneus1360
warlockc1400
leashc1430
link?a1500
shackle1540
cramp-ring1567
locketa1643
restraint1650
pinion1733
manacle1838
span1856
1540 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 220 There was put vpon your sayd poore subiecte..a great payer of Shackels.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxxiv A prison and a man lokyng out at a grate..and all his apparel was garded with shakelles of siluer.
1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyage rounde Worlde in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 219v Then caused two payre of shackels of iren to bee put on theyr legges.
1597 Aberd. Acc. in Spalding Club Miscell. V. 69 Tua pair of scheckills to the witches in the stepill.
1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 167 They resolved rather to dye fighting then to live in schackells.
1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) iii. 51 You go to offer your hands to the shackles that are already prepared for you.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 42 Slaves cannot breathe in England;..They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. x. 147 Haley, drawing out from under the wagon-seat a heavy pair of shackles, made them fast around each ankle.
1864 T. Seaton From Cadet to Colonel xiii. 272 Shackles were put on their legs.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Shackles, semicircular clumps of iron sliding upon a round bar, in which the legs of prisoners are occasionally confined on deck. Manacles when applied to the wrists.
c. Heraldry. A shackle used as a bearing.In modern dictionaries.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [noun] > shackle or shackle-bolt
shackbolt1632
shackle-bolt1688
shackle1780
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Shackle, or Link Of A Fetter, as borne in the arms of Shakerley.
2.
a. figurative and in figurative context. Applied to restraint on freedom of action. Chiefly in plural.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [noun] > that which
fetterOE
shackle?c1225
cagec1300
chainc1374
to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380
corda1382
gablea1555
obligation1582
hamper1613
tethera1628
girdlea1630
confiner1654
trammela1657
cramp1719
swathe1864
tie1868
lockstep1963
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action > that which
fetterOE
shackle?c1225
cagec1300
chainc1374
to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380
corda1382
gablea1555
obligation1582
manacle1587
hamper1613
tethera1628
girdlea1630
confiner1654
trammela1657
cramp1719
swathe1864
tie1868
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 75 Ach ancres..schule beo þer [i.e. in heaven]..lichtre ba & swiftre. & in swa wide schakeles as me seið pleiȝen in heouenes large lesewe. þet þe bodi schal beon hwer se eauer þe gast wune inane hont hwile.
a1400 Minor Poems Vernon MS. 145/13 For synne is cald þe deueles schakel, His net, his tool, his takyng takel.
a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. Ded. sig. Aiiv Staying thus in suspence, I shaked off the shakles with calling to remembraunce the saying of a poore Painter in Sienna, who [etc.].
1681 W. Temple Mem. iii, in Wks. (1731) I. 337 They would leave the Crown after him in Shackles, which..would not be easily knock'd off by any Successor.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 13 This body is become a prison, a shackle, a sepulchre to the soul.
1738 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 4/1 To knock off the Shackles of Ignorance and Prejudice.
1752 E. Young Brothers ii. i Virtue's a shackle, under fair disguise, To fetter fools, while we bear off the prize.
1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. clii That rhyme makes the poet walk in shackles is denied.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 281 Elizabeth..removed the chief shackle upon British trade.
b. the shackles: the bonds of matrimony.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond
knota1225
benda1250
spousing bandc1275
God's banda1425
marriage bond1595
marriage knot1595
marriage noosec1600
noosec1600
marriage tie1664
bridal knot1679
marriage chain1679
the shackles1780
wedding-knot1902
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 129 Bot begyn she to crok, To groyne or to clok, Wo is hym is oure cok, For he is in the shakyls.]
1780 Mirror No. 89 Were I to enter the shackles, I have too much regard to my own ease to chuse a lady of reflection.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > arm or leg ornament > [noun]
shackle1571
bangle1787
1571–2 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 294 An armlet or skakell [sic] of golde.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 10 They bury his Armolets, Bracelets, Shackles and such Treasure.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xviii. 514 Most of the Men and Women on the Island..had all Ear-rings made of Gold, and Gold Shackles about their Legs and Arms.
4. [Short for shackle-bone n.] The wrist; also rarely the ankle. dialect.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] > forearm > wrist
hand wristeOE
wrist?a940
rascettea1400
shackle-bone1571
shackle1788
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 350 Shackle of the arm, the wrist.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood Shackle, the wrist. ‘Spreined one o' my shackles’.
1902 C. J. C. Hyne Thompson's Progr. 195 ‘T' sheckle willn't mend…’.. The fool of a woman ought to have had her shackle set at the infirmary.
5.
a. A hobble for a horse. ? Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > hobble or fetter
fetterlockc1440
shackle1529
trammelc1550
manacle1553
rapshin1677
fetlock1695
French lock1704
heel rope1854
1529 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 366 Ane pair of schakillis to the grete hors.
1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 40/1 Shakels or spannes vpon the horse legges, numelli.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15v Strong fetters & shackles, with horslock & pad.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xi. 171 Those shackles which we clap on the legs of an vntrained Mule, which going with them many daies, taketh a steddie & seemly place [sic].
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. lxxxiv. 364 If a horse be galled in the pastorne, on the heele, or vpon the cronet, either with shackell or locke, as it many times happens in the Champion countries, where the Farmers vse much to teather their horses: then for such a soare you shall [etc.].
1814 R. Southey Roderick xxv. 91 Some sleek and sober mule Long trained in shackles to procession pace.
b. A chain, rope, twisted band of straw or the like, used for securing cows. Now dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > equipment
salec1299
salebandc1299
shacklec1460
marking stone1534
low bell1578
baikiea1598
nose-hook1778
sjambok1790
shangy1808
cow-bell1809
ox frame1844
bullwhip1848
humbug1850
stock-whip1852
bull-whacker1858
cattle-bell1872
bull-whack1885
leading-staff1886
bullock-bell1911
bull-holder1940
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1064 A plant, whils it is grene..A man may with his fyngirs ply it wher hym list, And make ther-of a shakill, a with[ey], or a twist.
1858 M. A. Denham in Denham Tracts (1891) I. 275 The custom of twisting birch twigs in a peculiar manner, to serve instead of hempen bands for the purpose of tying up cattle. These are called ‘sheakles’.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Shackle,..a cow chain.
II. In various technical senses.† 10. Some implement used by chimney-sweepers; ? a link for fastening poles together. Obsolete.
6. A ring, clevis, or similar device, used for attaching or coupling, so as to leave some degree of freedom of movement; often a U-shaped piece of iron, closed by a movable bar passing through holes in the ends.
a. A coupling for a plough, harrow, wagon, carriage, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > coupling
shackle1343
wain-shackle1559
head block1851
wagon-coupling1875
thill-coupling1877
1343 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 205 1 clitta pro moldebredd.; 2 schacles de ferro pro carucis; 2 coupewaynes.
?c1343 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 543 3 Reyns, 3 paribus de pastrons, 3 Schakles et 1 croper pro longa carecta, 26s. 9d.
1422–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 619 Pro 5 novis Reynes de corr. pro stabulo d'ni Prioris, 3 Shakelys de correo, 2 heltres de corr.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ix The fote teame shalbe fastned to the same [i.e. ‘the formast slote’ of the harrow] wt a shakyll or a with to drawe by.
1530 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 27 A wayne and yoke with bolte and shakyll.
1835 C. Howard Gen. View Agric. E. Riding Yorks. 3 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III The price charged..is for the plough fit for use, but not including the shackle, by which it is drawn and regulated.
1881 J. W. Burgess Pract. Treat. Coach-building x. 98 Shackles are iron staples, which serve to receive the leather suspension braces of C spring carriages on the springs; they are also used for coupling springs together.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Sheckle, sheakle, shaikle,..the sling that fastens the double-tree to a plough-head or bridle.
b. Nautical. A fastening for a port-hole; a coupling for lengths of chain cable, an anchor, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > shackle
shackle1627
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in side of vessel > cover of > fastening for
shackle1627
port-bar1717
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 68 Shackels are a kinde of Rings but not round..fixed to the middest of the ports within boord, through which wee put a billet to keepe fast the port for flying open in foule weather.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §142 A large swivel, with shackles and bolts,..the western chain..joined to the eastern..by a bolt and shackle.
1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 130 Shackles, the small ring-bolts driven into the ports, or scuttles, and through which the lashing passes when the ports are barred in.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 190 A large shackle is also fixed at one end to be joined to the anchor.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. 316 Each length is to be provided with a shackle and shackle bolt, to be tested as part of the chain.
1891 Winn Boating Man's Vade-m. 78 Shackle is a small half hoop shaped iron, fitted with a screw pin connecting the two open ends. Anchor shackles have the lug or pin countersunk [etc.].
c. A ring, hook, or the like for lifting, holding, carrying, etc. a weight or something heavy.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > hook
stone-hook1396
shackle1552
swivel-hook1788
sling-dog1863
sky-hook1927
1552 in R. H. Hore Wexford (1901) II. 243 2 Iron Shackells for bucketts.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 10/1 The immense wooden beams on which it [the bell] formerly hung have long since been broken down at the shackle.
d. The hinged and curved bar of a padlock which passes through the staple.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > padlock > part of
shackle1850
1850 J. Chubb On Constr. Locks & Keys 7.
7. Telegraphy. A form of insulator used in overhead lines for supporting the wire where a sharp angle occurs.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > line > insulators
shackle1852
shed1852
1852 Brit. Patent 680 (1854) 3 I insert a non-conducting shackle between the ends of the wire.
1855 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art III. 143 The conducting wire of the main line in passing the station is cut and the ends jointed by a shackle.
1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 213 A special form of insulator known as a shackle is employed, which confines the strain of the wire to one spot.
1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 214 The shackle is formed of porcelain, with a hole through the centre, into which a 4½in. bolt is inserted.
8. A device for gripping anything; spec. ‘either of the pivoted gripping devices for holding a test piece in a testing machine’ (Webster 1911).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > clamp
benda1250
clam1399
clamer1556
cramp1669
clamp1688
grapple1768
dog1833
shackle1838
Samson1842
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 380/1 A shackle was placed round the centre of the block [of concrete], and two others at the extremities.
9. A length of cable 12½ fathoms (originally the distance between two ‘shackles’, in sense 6b).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > arm as unit of length > outstretched arms or fathom > twelve and a half fathoms
shackle1886
1886 J. M. Caulfeild Seamanship Notes 4 The length of the bower cable is generally 12 shackles, a shackle is 12½ fathoms.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > cleaning chimneys > link to fasten rods together
shackle1707
1707 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) II. 104 A Chimney-sweeper, with his Brooms, his Poles and Shackles.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations. See also shackle-bolt n., shackle-bone n. † shackle-dancer n. Obsolete a performer who dances in shackles.† shackle-gall n. Obsolete a sore under the fetlock of a horse, caused by the galling of the shackle (cf. 5a); hence shackle-galled adj.† shackle-hammed adj. Obsolete knock-kneed.† shackle-hams n. Obsolete knock-knees.† shackle-vein n. Obsolete ‘a vein of the horse, apparently the median ante-brachial, from which blood used to be let’ ( Cent. Dict.).† shackle-wise adv. Obsolete in the form of a shackle.
shackle-bar n. (a) the swingle-tree of a coach, etc.; (b) U.S. ‘the coupling between a locomotive and its tender’ (Webster 1864).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > swingle-tree
swing-tree1396
swingletree1483
spring-tree1600
bridge tree1607
whippin1697
whippletree1733
cross-tree1765
splinter-bar1765
swindle-tree1801
shackle-bar1834
whiffletree1842
heel tree1846
single-tree1847
swingle-bar1849
pulling-tree1895
trace-block1900
1834 D. Walker Brit. Manly Exercises 201 Shackle- or swing~bars.
shackle-breeching n. (see quot. 1867).
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Shackle-breeching, two shackles are turned into [i.e. fastened to] the breeching, by which it is instantly disconnected from the port-ringbolts.
shackle-crow n. ‘a bar of iron slightly bent at one end like the common crow, but with a shackle instead of a claw at the end…used for drawing bolts or deck-nails’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
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1709 E. Smith Poem J. Philips 102 So the stretch'd Cord the Shackle-Dancer tries.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > chafing or galling
gallc1440
navel-gall?1523
spur-galling1566
saddle boil1591
saddle bruise1591
shackle-gall1596
warble1607
pince1610
stickfast1610
saddle galla1637
spur-gall1655
collar-gall1684
saddle mark1687
holster-gall1689
navel-galling1691
gall-spot1713
warble tumour1805
saddle sore1873
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > chafed or galled
galledc1000
saddle bitten1591
shackle-galled1596
navel-galled1601
spur-galled1608
saddle-galled1648
trace-galled1673
collar-galled1684
trace-beaten1687
halter-cast1704
1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Horses 164 Shakell-gall, is on the pastornes.
1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. C6 The Chinegall, the Nauellgall, Windgall, Spurgall, Lightgall, and Shacklegall.
1684 London Gaz. 1958/4 Her two fore Feet Shackel-gald.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of legs > having
leglessc1390
bow-legged1552
crook-legged1580
shackle-hammed1592
baker-kneed1611
baker-legged1611
buckle-hammed1629
out-shinned1682
bandy-legged1688
crooked-legged1691
shackled-ham'd1733
badger-legged1738
tailor-legged1768
knock-kneed1774
scissor-legged1880
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. Dv His legges shackle hamd, as if his knees had beene laced to his thighes with points.
1674 London Gaz. No. 907/4 A Red Roan Nag about 13 hands high, shakle hammed.
1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May xiv. 180 Weak-backed, shackle-hammed, full of Windgalls and Splints.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of legs > leg
stump lega1568
shackle-hams1603
baker's legs1611
badger legs1656
cheese-cutter1681
K-leg1842
jake leg1930
jake walk1930
1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. R4v The Grashopper..with his shackle hammes weakely skips too and fro.
shackle-head n. dialect a seine-net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net
seinec950
seine-net1603
sweep-net1605
shackle-head1762
sweeping-net1809
hang-net1812
stop-seine1825
purse seine1838
ring net1851
scringe1851
trawl-net1855
sweep-seine1856
ground-seine1874
purse seine net1879
shore seine1884
trek-net1913
1762 Gentleman's Mag. June 287/2 If I lies than Bessy, than I wishes The Shackleheads may never close the fishes.
shackle-irons n. dialect hand-cuffs.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > for the hands or arms
copsa700
manaclec1350
handlock1532
hand-bolt1563
handcuff1649
cuff1663
Darbies1673
glim-fenders1699
government securities1707
pinion1736
ruffles1776
bracelet1817
nippers1821
handicuff1825
shangy1839
snitchers1864
come-along1874
shackle-irons1876
mitten1880
wristlet1881
snaps1891
snips1891
stringers1893
twister1910
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Shackle-irons, prison hand-cuffs.
1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver xv. 176 I looked to be taen any day; and I did not want all to see me wear the shackle-irons.
shackle-jack n. (see quot. 1875).
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Shackle-jack, an implement for attaching the thills to the shackle on the axle where an anti-rattling box of india-rubber is used.
shackle-joint n. (a) a joint in the form of a shackle (sense 6), esp. one for adjusting the tension of rods, wires, etc.; (b) a peculiar kind of articulation in the vertebræ of some fishes (see quot. 1872).
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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > bones (various types of)
grate1481
pharyngeal1791
suboperculum1818
supratemporal1834
shackle-joint1837
mastoid1840
wrist1840
mastoid bone1841
subopercular1841
mesotympanic1846
suprascapula1846
hypobranchials1848
hypotympanic1848
urohyal1848
radius1854
epicentral1866
pterotic1866
mesocoracoid1868
supraclavicle1868
precoracoid1869
symplectic1870
hypural1871
mesopterygoid1871
post-temporal1871
postclavicle1872
brachial1873
urostyle1875
hypercoracoid1876
admaxillary1885
intercalarium1887
palatopterygoquadrate1888
subtectal1888
Weberian apparatus1889
Weberian ossicles1889
radial1890
supracleithrum1903
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > joint > types of
gemew?a1400
match-joint1683
matched joint1688
joggle1703
water joint1810
pin-joint1835
shackle-joint1837
screw shackle1847
through-joint1851
joggling1858
leg joint1858
splice1875
bed-joint1876
butting joint1887
saddle joint1901
contraction joint1909
1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 48 A round wrought-iron tie-bar..with a shackle joint in the centre.
1872 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ii. 25 Some spiny bones of Siluroid fishes have a perforation at their base, through which passes a bony ring..a shackle~joint.
shackle-net n. dialect (see quots.).
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1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Shackle-net, a net, called a flue.
shackle-pin n. †(a) the pin or bolt of a shackle; (b) ‘the small pin of wood or iron that confines a shackle-bolt in place’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > other types of pin or peg
shackle-pin1446
corking-pin?1690
drawing pin1812
eye ring1836
pound pins1838
coupling-pin1874
1446 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 95 vij shakels ferri, unde ij sine shakelpynnez et v cum shakylpynnez ferri.
shackle-plate n. (see quot. 1874).
ΚΠ
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 67 At K is shown a shackle plate to receive rudder pendants, which secure the rudder to the vessel in the event of the former becoming accidentally unshipped.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > leg > part of or on
shackle-vein1607
swimmer?1726
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 22 The cuer is to let them blood very much in the shackle veins to draw the humors from the vpper parts.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cxv. 414 A slender string, which commeth from the shackell veine to the gristell in the nose and betweene the lippe.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xx. 347 Take up the Shackle-veynes.
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1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell i. 73 Yee shall fasten them vnto the postes, with a bowe-withe made shacle wise.
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shacklen.2
dialect.
1. Stubble.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stubble
arrishOE
stub1250
stubble1297
pease stubble?1523
pease-etch1573
gratten1577
stumps1585
brush1686
etch1727
pea stubble1743
pease-eddish1789
stubble1792
shacklea1800
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Shackle, stubble. Herefordsh.
2.
a. Scottish. silver shackle: the quaking grass, Briza media. Cf. silver shakers at shaker n. 7.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > quaking-grass
Quakers1597
quaking grass1597
shakers1597
dodder-grass1617
brant-barley1633
cow-quakes1633
pearl grass1633
maidenhair grass1640
amourette1702
Lady's hair1732
quiver grass1759
quake1812
rattlesnake grass1814
totter-grass1821
silver shacklea1824
lady's tresses1842
fairy grass1846
earthquakes1851
trembling-grass1853
dadder grass1859
dithering-grass1878
totty-grass1901
shivery grass1926
a1824 in Mactaggart's Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 427 The sillar shakle wags its pow, Upon the brae.
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b. In plural. The yellow rattle, Rhinanthus Crista-galli ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
3. A game of dice; a raffle. Cf. shake n.1 2g.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun]
lottery1567
rifling1569
raffle1734
lotto1787
draw1839
roulette1861
swindle1868
shake1877
shackle1881
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > game of dice > [noun]
diec1330
cockal1586
set1595
straglersc1650
shackle1881
rats and mice1929
1881 Chequered Career 350 The shanty-keeper now produces the dice-box and proposes a ‘shackle’.
1885 Western Gaz. 30 Jan. in Notes & Queries 6th Ser. XI. 245/2 He..was asked by a young man to join in a ‘shackle’ for live tame rabbits. He consented, and a box was brought containing three threepenny pieces, and those who threw the highest gained the rabbits.
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shacklen.3
/ˈʃak(ə)l/ = shack n.3
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]
hulka1000
boothc1200
hull?c1225
lodge1290
hottea1325
holetc1380
tavern1382
scalea1400
schura1400
tugury1412
donjon?a1439
cabinc1440
coshc1490
cabinet1579
bully1598
crib1600
shed1600
hut1637
hovela1640
boorachc1660
barrack1686
bothy1750
corf1770
rancho1819
shanty1820
kraal1832
shelty1834
shackle1835
mia-mia1837
wickiup1838
caboose1839
chantier1849
hangar1852
caban1866
shebang1867
humpy1873
shack1878
hale1885
bach1927
jhuggi1927
favela1961
hokkie1973
1835 D. Webster Orig. Sc. Rhymes 194 There'll be gude tents an' shachels, For drinkers to roar an' to rift.
1890 Advance (Chicago) 18 Sept. I found lots of families living in the most miserable shackles.
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shacklev.1
/ˈʃak(ə)l/ 1.
a. transitive. To confine with shackles; to put a shackle or shackles on.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)]
bind971
to bind hand and footOE
i-bindec1000
umgivea1300
warrok1362
hampera1375
bolt1377
shacklec1440
astrainc1475
estrain1483
to put in irons1533
to tie up1570
manacle1582
beshackle1599
to tie (also lay) neck and heels1618
fillet1633
kilta1689
to tie down1699
oblige1718
hog-tie1886
zip-tie1985
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/2 Schaklyn, numello.
?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.vv In newgate we dwelled togyder For he and I were bothe shakeled in a fetter.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xx Edmond Mortimer..whome..Owen Glendor kepte in filthy prison shakeled with yrons.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 158 This mischiefe you may easely preuent, with shackling him with a shooe sole.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §4. 258 To finde their horses unfettered in the morning, although they were fast shackled over night.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 178 Sore and shackled as I was, I got..on deck.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 139 A smith was ordered to shackle him.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xviii. 173 It's harder yet to lie shackled in a red-coat prison.
b. of a chain.
ΚΠ
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 58 These chaines shall shackle and binde them for ever.
2. transferred and figurative.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]
bindc1200
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
corset1935
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action
bind971
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
to box up1659
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
hog-tie1924
corset1935
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 48v They will say, it were a plaine slauerie, & iniurie to, to shakkle and tye a good witte.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits i. 7 Our vnderstanding shackled with the rules & precepts of Logicke.
1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 245 The last post day I was shackled in my bed with an humour fallen into my right foot.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables lxxv. 74 His Claws were so Shackled in the Fleece..that the Shepherd..caught him.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 345 Moss likewise, which shackles the vine, as with a fetter,..must be carefully scraped off.
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France I. xv. 123 Had she been shackled to a morose,..jealous fellow..the case would have been different.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxiii. 452 The views of Paul were..less shackled by associations.
1901 Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 96 948 The work which they did hindered and shackled me in my endeavours to do what I considered right..for the Navy.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > fix in combination [verb (transitive)]
shackle1681
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. §ii. ii. 224 A little of that Fixed Salt, serves, it seems, to Shackle or Crystallize..a very great quantity of the Essential Salt of this Plant.
1682 N. Grew Disc. Tasts in Plants vi. iv. §12 in Anat. Plants 288 A Sulphur well impregnated, either with an Alkaline, or an Acid Salt, but also shackled with Earth.
1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 227 Sulphur, well impregnated with an Alkaline Salt, shackled with Earth.
4.
a. To join, couple, or fix by means of a shackle.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with chain
chain1393
link1693
shackle1834
warrok1894
1834 M. Scott Cruise of Midge i, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 316/1 Its [sc. the yard's] heavy iron-shod heel was shackled by a chain a fathom long, to a strong iron-bar.
1845 Ann. Reg. 131/2 A goods truck was placed across the up line at the ‘points’..ready to be shackled to a down train.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 171 Shackle the cable.
b. intransitive for reflexive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > be fastened [verb (intransitive)] > with chain
shackle1865
1865 Times 19 Aug. 9/3 Up came the cable and wire rope shackling together on the V-wheel in the bow.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 50 The foremost ends shackle on to dolphin striker.
5. Telegraphy. To attach to or furnish with a shackle (shackle n.1 7). to shackle off: to terminate (involving the use of a shackle).
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [verb (transitive)] > sheathe or shackle off cable
shackle1853
sheathe1884
1853 Brit. Patent 14,331 (1857) 14 The various means described of suspending, fastening, and shackling above-ground telegraph wires.
1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 224 When the wire has to be terminated, or ‘shackled off’, as it is termed, at intermediate points.
1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. Shackling, connecting a line wire to a shackle insulator.
Derivatives
ˈshackling n. and adj.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun]
shackling1556
uptying1614
fetteringa1623
chaining1661
ironing1715
the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > rendered immobile or held fast > hampered or obstructed > hampering or obstructing
clogging1735
shackling1861
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [adjective]
shackling1861
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxii. 20 Rather then bide their perpetuall shakling, To stand agaynst them, and stick to our takling.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 3 A medly made to the everlasting shackling of that head or question.
1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xvii. 229 They then have recourse to steel collars and other iron machines [to prevent children from stooping]; all which shacklings are repugnant to nature, and may make the body grow crooked.
1861 F. A. Paley Æschylus' Choephori (ed. 2) 484 (note) The entangling and shackling garment called ποδιστὴρ πέπλος.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. i. 18 Censorship, or the shackling of men's poor tongues and pens.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. xii. 273 For the miserable floods, and the long snowtime, and the shackling of the stream is over.
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shacklev.2
dialect.
1. transitive. To lay (standing corn); also, to litter, disorder (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). Also to send hogs a shackling, to send them to feed in the stubble (cf. shack n.1, shack v.1).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [verb (transitive)] > damaged crop
lay1590
lodge1597
reta1642
shackle1670
sloom1762
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed or fatten pigs
brawn1655
swilla1722
to send hogs a shackling1790
pork1877
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [verb (intransitive)] > pasture pigs on stubble
to send hogs a shackling1790
shack1867
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 83 Every Neighbour's Horse or Cow, that breaks their hedges, or shackles their Corn.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) at Shacking To send hogs a shackling, to send hogs to feed in the stubble. Essex.
1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) After some heavy rain the corn is ‘so shackled that you cannot reap it’.
2. intransitive. To idle or loaf about, to shirk work. (Cf. shack v.2)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf
luskc1330
lubber1530
to play the truant, -s1560
lazea1592
lazy1612
meecha1625
lounge1671
saunter1672
sloungea1682
slive1707
soss1711
lolpoop1722
muzz1758
shack1787
hulkc1793
creolize1802
maroon1808
shackle1809
sidle1828
slinge1834
sossle1837
loaf1838
mike1838
to sit around1844
hawm1847
wanton1847
sozzle1848
mooch1851
slosh1854
bum1857
flane1876
slummock1877
dead-beat1881
to lop about1881
scow1901
scowbank1901
stall1916
doss1937
plotz1941
lig1960
loon1969
1809 T. Batchelor Orthoëpical Anal. Dial. Bedfordshire v, in Orthoëpical Anal. Eng. Lang. 143 Shakling, idling.
1845 F. E. Paget Tales Village Children 2nd Ser. 120 That good-for-nothing fellow, rat-catcher Falkener, who is always shackling about.
1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 266 There's a lot of lads that are always shackling about, ready for any mischief on Sundays.
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