Hamshackle

Quick meaning: Hamshackle is a verb meaning (transitive) To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.

Meaning

(transitive) To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figurative) To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon.

Example Sentences

to hamshackle a horse or cow

Not only are our sources, indicating the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, limited, but we are also hamshackled by certain time constraints.

Word Forms

• hamshackles
• hamshackling
• hamshackled

Synonyms for hamshackle

Depending on context, synonyms include curtail, repress, behedge, guard, govern, smother.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enshackle, shackle, hamper, gyve, manacle, fetter.

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