shacklingadj.
/ˈʃaklɪŋ/ 1. Loafing, dissipated.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] > idling or loafing
loiteringa1533
truanting1635
sauntering1672
dawdling1773
shackling1788
lounging1789
louting1836
lubbering1837
loafing1857
mitching1857
scowbanking1868
shacking1881
1788 S. Parr Let. 16 Feb. in Wks. (1828) VII. 407 And upon this account I call him a shuffling, shilly-shally, shackling fellow.
1889 D. E. Hurst Horsham (ed. 2) 267 I carn't employ him, he is such a shackling fellow.
2. U.S. Rickety, ramshackle.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > of parts
weak?a1500
resolute?1570
shackling1790
infirm1820
shipwrecky1857
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety
seely1562
crazy1583
ramshackled1675
creachy1715
rickly1715
rickety1741
palsified1775
shackling1790
ramshackling1815
paralytic1824
rackety1824
rattletrap1824
cocklety1828
ramshackle1830
shickery?1833
shackly1843
shattery1844
shaky1850
ramshackly1857
cockly1859
rachitic1864
ruckly1866
tumble-over1883
palsied1889
rattle-bag1896
shauchly1896
bockety1902
ruggy1929
rickety-rackety1931
ropy1942
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective] > insecure, weak
lithy1377
brucklea1400
flickering1430
queasy1459
weaka1538
infirm1557
slender1562
crazed1600
unsinewed1604
ticklish1606
touchy1620
crazied1652
flicketing1674
shaky1841
shackling1846
wonky1919
1790 W. Maclay Jrnl. 24 May (1890) vii. 272 His whole figure has a loose, shackling air.
1793 J. Lindley in Friends' Misc. (1836) II. 63 And the wagon very shackling, made the tour very disagreeable.
1846 J. K. Polk Diary 9 June (1929) iii. 114 Mr. Bancroft reminded Mr. Buchanan of a remark which he had made in the Cabinet some months ago, that the title of the United States north of 49° was a shackling one.
1853 F. W. Thomas John Randolph & Other Sketches 216 Our host, Mr. Stetson, was the owner of an old, shabby, shackling gig.
1872 J. T. Trowbridge Coupon Bonds 387 (Farmer) The gate itself was such a shackling concern, a child couldn't have leaned on it without breaking it down.
1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 738/2 A poor old black horse, harnessed to a shackling buggy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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ˈshackling
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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