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Word entry · 7 letters

shackle

Best crossword clue

"Restrain with irons"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃækl̩/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acehklsStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. restrain with fetters

Word origin

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).

Used in a sentence

  • The prisoner lay in shackles in his gloomy cell.
  • Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free, / They touch our country and their ſhackles fall. / That's noble, and beſpeaks a nation proud / And jealous of the bleſſing.
  • Tom got in, and Haley, drawing out from under the wagon seat a heavy pair of shackles, made them fast around each ankle. A smothered groan of indignation ran through the whole circle, […]

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