Shackle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A restraint fitted over a human or animal appendage, such as an ankle, finger, or wrist, normally used in a pair joined by a chain.

   “The prisoner lay in shackles in his gloomy cell.”

2. isim A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a bolt or pin across the ends, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism, used for attaching things together while allowing for some degree of movement; a clevis.
3. isim Part of a padlock that consists of a loop of metal (round or square in cross section) that encompasses what is being secured by the lock.
4. isim A hook, ring, or other device for connecting, holding, lifting, etc.; specifically (nautical), a small incomplete ring secured with a bolt across the ends, used to connect lengths of cable or chain together, or to keep a porthole closed.
5. isim Synonym of hobble or hopple (“a short strap tied between the legs of a horse, allowing it to wander a short distance but not to run off”).

   “Soles, fetters, ⁊ ſhackles, with horſelock and pad, / a cow-houſe for winter, ſo meete to be had: / A ſtie for a bore, and a hogſcote for hog, / a rooſt for thy hennes, and a couch for thy dog.”

6. isim A link for connecting railroad cars; a draglink, drawbar, or drawlink.
7. isim Ellipsis of shackle-bone (“wristbone, carpal; wrist”).
8. isim A fetter-like band worn on an appendage as an ornament; an anklet, an armlet, a bracelet, a wristlet.

   “[M]oſt of the Men and VVomen […] had all Ear-rings made of Gold, and Gold Shackles about their Legs and Arms: […]”

9. isim A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.

   “[A] Servant commonly is leſs free in Mind than in Condition; his very VVill ſeems to be in bonds and ſhackles, and Deſire it ſelf under a kind of Durance and Captivity.”

10. isim A length of cable or chain equal to 12½ fathoms (75 feet or about 22.9 metres), or later to 15 fathoms (90 feet or about 27.4 metres).

    “Once the cables are at five shackles to each anchor, stop engines and stop windlass operations. The vessel will then be seen to lie to five shackles on the Port (Riding Cable) and five shackles on the starboard (Sleeping Cable).”

11. fiil To place (a person or animal) in shackles (noun etymology 1 sense 1); to immobilize or restrain using shackles.

    “Huelydd, sub[stantive] a fetterer, he that shackleth or fettereth”

12. fiil To connect or couple (something) to another thing using a shackle (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1.1, etymology 1 sense 1.1.3, etc.).
13. fiil To provide (something) with a shackle.
14. fiil To inhibit or restrain the ability, action, activity, or progress of (someone or something); to render (someone or something) incapable or ineffectual.

    “This law would effectively shackle its opposition.”

15. fiil To combine (a substance) with another substance.

    “Bitterneſs is produced by a Sulphur vvell impregnated, either vvith an Alkaline, or an Acid Salt, but alſo ſhackled vvith Earth.”

16. fiil Of two things: to connect or couple together.
17. isim A person who is idle or lazy; an idler.
18. isim A dice game; also, an event at which tickets are sold for chances to be drawn to win prizes; a raffle.
19. fiil To rattle or shake (something).
20. fiil To put (something) into disorder; specifically (agriculture), to cause (standing stalks of corn) to fall over.
21. fiil Often followed by about: to be idle or lazy; to avoid work.
22. özel isim A surname