shackle

• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
• restrain with fetters
• bind the arms of
• a U-shaped bar
• Stubble
• Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion
• Hence, that which checks or prevents free action
• A fetterlike band worn as an ornament
• A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed
• A link for connecting railroad cars
• The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple
• To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion
• Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action
• To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars

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