Shackles is valid Scrabble Word

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

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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.

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