Shackles is valid Scrabble Word

Is shackles a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is shackles valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for SHACKLES in dictionary:

VERB:

SHACKLE, to confine with irons around wrists and ankles
chain with shackles
restrain; limit

NOUN:

a situation or factor that restrains or restricts someone or something
a metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain or rope to something.
a pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together.
a pivoted link connecting a spring in a vehicle's suspension to the body of the vehicle.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to confine with metal fastenings placed around the wrists or ankles

Words related to SHACKLES

shackle16 shackled18 shackling19

Words that contain SHACKLES

unshackles19 hamshackles25 ranshackles20

How to use SHACKLES in a sentence

But to break the shackles of the man of trade is the work of our era, or of an era yet to come.
All parties now wanted independence, to possess a country of their own, free of English shackles.
Then, hateful as is the life of shackles to me, will I marry her.
None of the prisoners, since the moment the shackles had been put on, had uttered a word.
Of these men I know not what use can be made, for they can never be trusted, but with shackles on their legs.
Meanwhile Locke, his lungs almost bursting and the blood surging to his head, had managed to free himself from his shackles and had floated to the surface of the water.
Truly, brother, it is we who have the wits and the luck to rise above the whipping-post and the shackles that are the great men hereabouts.
The cause of education has suffered much from the failure of educators to break loose from the shackles of the past.
It may, perhaps, continue to be easier for a time to strike the colored man than to strike off his shackles.
A better land they founded, That Freedom had for bride, The shackles of old despotism Struck from her limbs and side.

This production is so peculiarly theirs, that its shackles affect no other nation.
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.
Among other things, he told me that he would send for me and bind me with double shackles.
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, England began to throw off the shackles of Puritanism, and to lose all interest in Whiggery.
The real significance of the Florentine invention was its destruction of the musical shackles which had so long hampered the advance toward truthful utterance.
Let them loose from their shackles the captives of sensual desires and cause the excluded to become intimates of the mysteries.
He was cleansed from the stain of living, his heart was eased, for he had burst the shackles that held him to this present life.
Nor were the means and instruments lacking whereby his emancipation from the shackles that restrained Him could be effected.
She is powerless to move in her own behalf, being bound hand and foot by the remorseless shackles of her birth.
Graciously, in loving kindness and tenderly, God broke the shackles and freed her soul.
How can you expect that I, free in the position I have made for myself, should go willingly and hold out my hands to the shackles of a stranger? That is all Charles is to me.
Grey subsequently defended the rights of His Royal Highness from the shackles proposed to be laid on him as Regent.
Hammers were soon brought into requisition, the shackles struck off them, and a scene of affecting joy took place.

Similar words containing SHACKLE without suffix s

shackle16 shackled18 shackler17 shacklers18 unshackle18 hamshackle24 ramshackle21 ranshackle19 unshackled20 unshackles19 hamshackled26 hamshackles25 ranshackled21 ranshackles20 shacklebone22 shacklebones23

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