shackle-boltn.
1. The bolt which passes through the eyes of a shackle.
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1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 234 Shackle bolt of a triangle gin.
1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 214 Through the hole in the arm or bracket a 4½ in. bolt is placed; connecting this with the shackle-bolt are two galvanized iron straps..which [etc.].
2. Heraldry. This used as a bearing.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 311/1 He beareth sable, a double shake-bolt or shackle-bolt, Argent.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xv. 291 A fetterlock and shakle-bolt azure.
3. ‘A bolt having a shackle or clevis on the end’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
4. dialect. A handcuff.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shackle-bolts or Shackles, a sort of Fetters put upon Malefactors in Prison.
1897 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 1 May (E.D.D.) Shackle-bolts [= handcuffs].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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