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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