shackle

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

shack·le (shăkʹəl)left to right: spin and anchor shackles© School Division, Houghton Mifflin Companyn.
1. A metal fastening, usually one of a pair, for encircling and confining the ankle or wrist of a prisoner or captive; a fetter or manacle.
2. A hobble for an animal.
3. Any of several devices, such as a clevis, used to fasten or couple.
4. A restraint or check to action or progress. Often used in the plural:
economic shackles that precluded further investment.tr.v. shack·led, shack·ling, shack·les
1. To confine with shackles; fetter.
2. To fasten or connect with a shackle.
3. To restrict, confine, or hamper. See Synonyms at hamper¹. [Middle English schackel, from Old English sceacel, fetter.] shackʹler n.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bond, hamper, trammel, fetter, pinion