Definitions For Shackle

noun

  • A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
  • A U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
  • One of two rings or bands that are placed around a person's wrists or ankles and that are connected by a chain
  • Something that prevents people from acting freely

verb

  • Restrain with fetters
  • Bind the arms of
  • To put shackles on (someone or something)

Is Shackles a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
17
Words with Friends
18

The word Shackle is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Shackle in a Sentence

  • Placed shackles on the legs of the prisoners
  • The shackles of illiteracy can be just as confining as leg irons
  • The guard shackled the prisoner.
  • Unwilling to shackle the dogs to the wall of the house

Synonyms for Shackle

Antonyms for Shackles

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