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Definitions for shackles
shack·les
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Wiktionary
shacklesnoun
Restraints, (usually metal) often joined by a chain, placed around a prisoner's wrists or ankles to restrict their movement.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
shackles
Semicircular clumps of iron sliding upon a round bar, in which the legs of prisoners are occasionally confined to the deck. Manacles when applied to the wrists. (See BILBOES.)
Rap Dictionary
shacklesnoun
Handcuffs.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shackles in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shackles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of shackles in a Sentence
The heaviest shackles and chains one can wear are those they cannot see. A slave with unseen shackles is the most bound.
It feels like shackles have been removed from me and I feel a great sense of liberty now.
Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty, it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.
She lit up a room, her heart was pure, she would do anything for anybody and the only person at the end of the day Siena ever hurt was herself, the demons of mental illness and the shackles of addiction took over who she really was at her core.
Britney, Inside the Dream, she’s had to ask permission to use the phone and for access to any kind of money. Even her body has not been hers to control. Basically she’s been turned into a 12-year-old girl – permanently – asking Daddy if she can have pocket money. These limitations, these shackles, have always been part of the conservatorship.
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