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Fetter :: Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.

Jew''s-harp :: Jew's-harp (n.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.

Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc..

Palmer :: Palmer (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle..

Hackled :: Hackled (imp. & p. p.) of Hackl.

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel..

Wearer :: Wearer (n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc..

Fetter :: Fetter (n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle..

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers..

Unbind :: Unbind (v. t.) To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load..

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel..

Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles..

Shacklock :: Shacklock (n.) A sort of shackle.

Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain..

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