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Meanings of shackle in inglês

português
cadeia
catalão
cadenes
espanhol
grillete

A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

cadeia
português
acorrentar
catalão
emmanillar

Restrain with fetters.

acorrentar
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Examples for "fetter"
Examples for "fetter"
1
Perhaps it is the little fetter that seals my engagement to him.
Molly Bawn
2
Countess, I never felt the grasp of that iron fetter until now.
The Strong Arm
3
I pray now to Thor and to Odin, who can fetter Loki.
The Moon Pool
4
Accept nothing however pleasant, if it conceals a fetter into thy Soul.
The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga / Including the Practices and ...
5
As much as she loved to fetter she hated to be fettered.
In the Wilderness

Bind the arms of.

Usage of shackle in inglês
1
To these people I say: Getting out of bed is a shackle.
Gunn's golden rules
2
Skylan had feared the soldiers of Oran would try to shackle Wulfe.
Secret of the Dragon
3
I would never let myself be his shackle- Ilovedhim too much.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
4
Her light touch on his arm was the very shackle of fate.
Up the Hill and Over
5
Who dares frame it in fear, or shackle it in invented proscriptions?
Forge of Darkness
6
They are distinguished by an iron shackle about one of their legs.
Travels through France and Italy
7
Whatever slavery might do to me, it could not shackle my children.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
8
Herod's sons make a pitiable sight, red shackle marks upon their wrists.
Daughters of the Nile
9
He felt certain he had an old shackle lock in here somewhere.
The strain
10
They would shackle the mind and bring it in subjection to the priesthood.
Heroes of Modern Europe
11
Ty pistons his right arm downward, pulling free of the shackle.
Black house
12
He grasped the slippery side of the skip and felt the shackle loop.
The Girl from Keller's
13
My tormentors did not shackle me; I was spared that humiliation.
Lords of the North
14
The pangs of a convulsion fit did not long shackle the determined Bruce.
The Scottish Chiefs
15
But he did not believe that this should shackle his freedom in appointing.
George Washington
16
He forced a foreclaw to shackle the edge of the crater, looking down.
Oberheim (Voices): A Chronicle of War
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